In the event of a frontal impact, the Pro-Lite steering column is designed to collapse a full 5-inches. This can prevent the steering assembly from pushing the steering shaft into the driver and causing injury.
“The collapsing feature is combined with our own bearing assemblies as a fresh performance design,” Eddie Mohr, Senior Sales Representative at Ididit, Inc., says. “It’s not just a stock replacement, but far better. We engineer and machine all of our columns and individual components in-house.”
The column utilizes shear pins and a unique shaft within a shaft design that will collapse up to five-inches during a high frontal impact. – Eddie Mohr, Ididit
When unboxing our new Pro-Lite column, we nearly threw it to the ceiling because it was so lightweight compared to the OEM unit just removed. We set up our scales which showed the Ididit column weighing in at just a click under 6-pounds. Our old factory column was more than double the weight of our replacement at almost 13-pounds. With many racers still using a factory column-shifter style assembly in the vintage body shell, this retrofit can result in even greater weight savings.
“We have retained many of the comforts of your OEM steering column,” adds Mohr. “For many street/strip or even full-on racecars still wanting to utilize lights, self-canceling turn signals, horn wiring and such, the Pro-Lite column contains all of the durable signal switch, wiring, and OEM-style wiring harness connectors found in our other product lines.”
Along with the Pro-Lite columns, Ididit also currently offers a Pro-Fab series of bolt-in columns for various year Mustangs along with the the Integra and Civic. These are available in brushed aluminum and a black hard coat and also offer options like digital dash panel mounts.