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Old 06-19-2010, 04:20 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Old 06-19-2010, 06:08 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Old 06-20-2010, 03:25 PM   #13 (permalink)
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I've owned 8 CRX's, I have driven a car with no power steering. I do know that a car with power steering disabled will be more difficult to drive, but not that much.
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The CRXs are lighter than the later Civics. Like I said, the manual steering box (in addition to the lighter weight) is easier to drive, but by no means would your car be unreasonably hard to steer. A little more heft, but once you're above 15mph it's really no issue.

Now, if you were driving say, my '69 CST10 with a lovely iron 350 V8, that's another story. I tried driving it ONCE with out power steering. Even with the original 17" steering wheel still on it, I came back sweating. And this was in the winter.

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