Electric power steering?

BillGrissom said

Cool, but fabbing mounting points will be hard and add considerable weight, plus limit access. Might take careful design so you don't get bump steer, limit travel, or the wheel turns the wrong way. The later might be a feature once you learn to steer backwards since nobody could steal your car.

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Bump steer is a complete non-issue, the stock Mopar steering box is used so all of the steering geometry would remain identical. You'd add the power unit into the column, so the rest of the steering system would stay the same.

Depending on where you put the module, you could probably even retain all the visible parts of the steering column, so mopar turn signals, steering wheel etc.

By the looks of things, you could probably add the power module into the column under the dash. Just section it straight into the steering shaft, and take a section out of the column jacket. Mount the column jacket up to the power module, and adapt it into the steering column with the appropriate couplers.

That link to the guys Nova page pretty much shows exactly that process. I may have to buy some of those parts and see if I can figure out how to mount one of those things up. With my 16:1 Flaming river steering box and 275/35/18's up front the steering effort on my Duster is pretty significant at "parking" speeds. And if the "boost" from the electric unit was enough, I might even be able to install a steering quickner to drop the ratio to 12:1 or even 8:1 for truly go-cart like steering...