Steering Damper

Started by 302GT, July 26, 2010, 02:36:29 PM

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roverman

I consider scrub radius the enemy. I suspect some folks run a larger steering wheel or dampeners, because of excessive amounts. Calvin, it sounds like your car suffers from positive scrub radius ? Can you adjust for more ball joint/king pin inclination, to reduce the scrub radius ?  Good Luck, roverman.

74ls1tr6

Art,

Took the TR6 to Les Swab here in town and had a 4 wheel alignment done. It needed it for sure since building the car. I had it pretty close from eye balling it.

Front needs more caster still, but I added metal plates(to stengthen) at the wishbone arms attaching points. By doing this I need to install lomger bolt studs for more caster adjustment.

Front and back I'm running  negative camber @ 1.5 all four wheels.

Front toe in 1/16... back 0 toe in

Running 30psi in all four tires and myself in car while doing the alignment.

So after alignment it was a world of difference. I'm in the process of adding 12.19 vented rotors up front with Wilwood 4 pot calipers. At that time when apart, will add in loger bolts to achive more caster. Also my suspension doesn't have much deflection because of the use of nylatron bushings. That being said, I feel everything at the steering wheel. When apart, I'm taking out a 3/4" spacer under the spring to lower the front back down an 1". In the end I think it will curb the problem out.

Thanks Art for your interest!

roverman

Calvin, some irs's use small toe-out at static, knowing they will pull in under load. Cheers, roverman.