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hey guys,

I'm not sure how heavy I should expect my new skyline's steering to be so I thought I'd ask. seems fairly stiff compared to my 98 lancer, gotta put in nearly twice as much effort to get the skyline to turn when doing minimal speed. could that just be because the skylines got a bigger set of wheels (18" rims) as apposed to the lancer's little 15"?

seems with the skyline that once moving its not as heavy, though still noticable not to the same extent.

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There's a computer in your boot (below the parcel shelf on the drivers side) which controls the HICAS (rear wheel steering) and the Power Steering...

This often gets flakey and dies (mine only does it sometimes if I restart the car after a long drive and it's quite warm).

The computer controls Power Steering stiffness... It is meant to be quite "light" at very low speeds to make parking easier, and stiffens up a bit once you get moving, and then goes fairly stiff at 80km/h+ to increase stability. My computer has a loose solder joint or something, so sometimes stays "stiff", which makes it feel like power steering has failed. But really it just thinks you're going faster than you are, so it stays hard.

If it happens all the time, find a friend with another R33 GTST which is the same series as yours, and swap the computers over (few bolts and a plug, really easy and quick to do) to see if it helps. If it does, grab one for $40 from someone who's wrecking a car in the For Sale section

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Your welcome to try mine for compassion and plug the computer in your car.

I found out having an aftermarket steering wheel stops hicas from working so I gotta unbolt and unplug the hicas computer in the boot anyway. The bigger of the two wires has to stay plugged in though I think to disable hicas but not make the power steer go hard?

Mine is a S1 ECR33 as well going by your dispay pic. Looks remarkably similar to yours. I think the rims are the same too lol.

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