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Q I'd have to say that I love your magazine and even more when you do projects on the Nissan 240SX. But I got a tough one for you: I have an '89 240SX and was wondering how my friend with a '93 fastback without power steering can still turn and all that. Is that possible? Because he said that mine doesn't have power steering, either. I have the shell and I'm putting in an SR20 motor so is it true that my car doesn't have power steering? And if it doesn't, where can I get it. Because I was in his car and I tried to steer it, and I did but it was kind of hard. Help me if you can.

Minh
Via the Internet

A Amazingly enough, there was a time when cars weren't equipped with power steering and people still managed to turn. From what we remember, all the 240SXs came with power steering, even the base models. The thing with your car is, since it's an '89 and came with the single-cam motor, you won't be able to use the original power steering with the engine swap. You'll either have to, A) live with no power steering and get buff arms, B) get some custom lines made, or C) order the power steering lines off of a '91-94 240SX from the dealer. We'd pick C and we would go through Superior Nissan (626.965.5060, www.superiornissanmotorsports.com) because they know the exact parts you need to make everything work, plus they carry all the SR20 parts in case you break something on your swap.

Q Hey, Super Street, what's up? I have a '98 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS and I want some more power out of it. Do you guys know about any good turbo kits? What parts would you recommend to make my slow GS into a sleeper? Thanks for being such a good magazine.

Travis Hotz
Valrico, FL

A We spent some time trying to figure out why you'd buy a non-turbo Eclipse but eventually gave up. It didn't take long for us to find a couple of turbo kits for your car. Check out Hahn Racecraft (www.hahnracecraft.com) for some pretty cool bolt-on kits. Their stage 1 and 2 kits boast up to 275 hp on just 10 lb of boost. If you wanna get into a more detailed system that upgrades the fuel and eventually the internals, you can find that from them, too. While you're at it, go ahead and take a gander at the Turbokits.com (www.turbokits.com, duh) Web site for their Eclipse turbo kit. It's a really complete setup with all the fuel upgrades and hardware ready to bolt-on, and you can look to gain up to 100hp. We're sure there are more options out there, but these two companies will give you a push in the right direction and we can't be doing all the leg work for you.