RE: Subject: RE: S6 steering

["Geoff Jenkins" <jenkinsg@pilot.msu.edu>]

On mine, the feel is broadly the same as the sensitivity you'd get at about
70, but all the way across the speed range. Others have reported a much
lower level of boost with the plug off. I suspect there's probably some
variation depending on the state of the PS pump and so on. Either way, I'd
like to lessen the boost still further. Certainly the steering was, if
anything, too light at the track, not too heavy.

Geoff

'94 S4

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C1J1Miller@aol.com [mailto:C1J1Miller@aol.com]
>
> >From memory, the '91 Model Change book says servotronic uses a
> speed sensor to
> vary assist with road speed.  They show a nice graph giving lots
> of assist at
> low speeds, and little at higher speeds.  I think there's a servo
> that pulses
> the fluid pressure to give assist.  I'm not sure if the default
> (disconnected)
> varies from high speed low assist; seems they'd provide _some_ assist as a
> default.  It seems possible that you could give the steering a
> default speed
> signal (say 100 mph) and receive the appropriate boost for that
> signal at all
> times; perhaps the speed signal could be altered with a resistor
> to allow some
> assist at parking speeds, but very little at driving speeds.
> Some S4/S6 owners have reported that the steering assist, when
> unplugged, is
> insufficient in track use...
> chris
>