Steering Rack Spacer?
03-22-2012, 04:53 PM
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Steering Rack Spacer?
My Steering rack spacers just came in and they are flat everywhere except with a hole in the middle. From other people's pictures, they have a concave slope around the hole.
Is everyone else's flat?
Also if have Eibach Sportlines Lowering Springs, I have a camber kit, and the questionable spacers.
Do I need anything else?
Is everyone else's flat?
Also if have Eibach Sportlines Lowering Springs, I have a camber kit, and the questionable spacers.
Do I need anything else?
03-22-2012, 05:53 PM
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My Steering rack spacers just came in and they are flat everywhere except with a hole in the middle. From other people's pictures, they have a concave slope around the hole.
Is everyone else's flat?
Also if have Eibach Sportlines Lowering Springs, I have a camber kit, and the questionable spacers.
Do I need anything else?
Is everyone else's flat?
Also if have Eibach Sportlines Lowering Springs, I have a camber kit, and the questionable spacers.
Do I need anything else?
Originally Posted by Powell Race Parts
^^^ bit more than an 1.8th lol but you are right. 5 or 6 mm will work fine for most drops, 10 mm for extreme, thats .250 and .500. 1.5 inches is retarded, but that is probably a mistake. Just a flat alloy plate will do, dont machine a recess that was a copied fail lol
03-22-2012, 10:28 PM
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copiers copy sometimes get found out...
03-23-2012, 11:21 AM
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It's job is to eliminate bump steer. Bump steer happens when the wheel moves up or down and the tie rod and control arm don't quite follow the same arc. From the factory its designed to be minimal, the problem gets bad once you lower the car. The rack spacers raise the tie rods to help re align them with the control arms to get them to move in unison so you don't get massive bump steer
03-23-2012, 07:12 PM
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Sweet was getting ready to complain out of the a$$ to get the right ones. Also would it be bad to lower my cobalt 2.2 on 17's with 4 Nankang NS-1 Radial
*215/45R-17XL 91H BSW tires with eibach sportlines. Never lowered before.
*215/45R-17XL 91H BSW tires with eibach sportlines. Never lowered before.
03-23-2012, 07:56 PM
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bumpsteer check. assume 3 inches of wheel travel as representative for the check.
set tire pressures, no junk in the trunk, measure toe ( I run zero so its easy); record.
jack car up under the cradle 3 inches. measure toe; record.
lower car down to ride height. Left one front wheel 3 inches (roll it up onto a 3 inch wood block)
measure toe; record.
look at what you got. Ideally its should be zero through out. If it varies, and goes to a couple of minutes of toe in, np live with it . If it goes to toe out, raise the rack and remeasure etc.
what i do, is set ride height by measuring what I have, then resting the chassis on blocks at the pinch weld jack areas ( in my case the UCR) at the arrows provided on the rocker panel covers, to that ride height. I then remove springs front and rear, shocks at the rear, (you have to put the struts back without springs and i use a spare set of struts) then i spend the day screwing around measuring and seeing what I need it is easy to lift wheels etc and shim chassis without springs getting in the way.
thats why I get crazy with copiers, cos those jackasses never did any of this r&d and thats the truth.
set tire pressures, no junk in the trunk, measure toe ( I run zero so its easy); record.
jack car up under the cradle 3 inches. measure toe; record.
lower car down to ride height. Left one front wheel 3 inches (roll it up onto a 3 inch wood block)
measure toe; record.
look at what you got. Ideally its should be zero through out. If it varies, and goes to a couple of minutes of toe in, np live with it . If it goes to toe out, raise the rack and remeasure etc.
what i do, is set ride height by measuring what I have, then resting the chassis on blocks at the pinch weld jack areas ( in my case the UCR) at the arrows provided on the rocker panel covers, to that ride height. I then remove springs front and rear, shocks at the rear, (you have to put the struts back without springs and i use a spare set of struts) then i spend the day screwing around measuring and seeing what I need it is easy to lift wheels etc and shim chassis without springs getting in the way.
thats why I get crazy with copiers, cos those jackasses never did any of this r&d and thats the truth.
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