Non bacon car

[MechEngg]

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Bump steer is caused when your control arms don't run exactly parallel to your tie rods. The suspension travel actually will rotate your tires whenever you go over bumps and whichever tire catches first is the way the car will steer right after a bump and then it will start to wander back and forth between the two angles until your suspension has settled straight again. Only way to really fix it are to make your suspension completely horizontal (raise the vehicle) or find some way to adjust the height of your steering rack so that they are at the same angle as your lower control arms throughout the entire range of your suspension travel.

Tracking of your vehicle has a bit to do with tire width, but more often then not it has to do with the increased castor of your front struts after lowering, an increased castor will definitely lead your car to track better.

[Danaldson]

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[Danaldson]

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do you have adjustable control arms? if not, and you still want to be slammed, now might be the perfect time to grab a set (since you're doing an alignment).
lots of options out there, and RockAuto in the US sells the same ones as everyone else for about 1/2 the price ($195 CAD per side).

http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/more...d=428&jpid=119

I do not have adjustable control arms. A lot of the b7 guys who are lower than me are having no issues with tire life on stock arms.

Ouch, that sucks. Those tires a really shredded too, glad one didn't blow on you!

good thing because i was planning to roll on these to leavenworth...



One of the audizine guys mentioned something about bump steer:

The inside wear is mainly due to the toe. The camber won't kill tires like that, however a bit of camber AND factory (or out of spec) toe settings WILL easily kill tires that quickly. You need to get an alignment and have the toe set fairly close to zero, then adjust your bump-steer to neutralize that.

Ive told people that I've been experiencing "tracking" or my car grabbing the road and pulling. I thought this was normal because of a wider wheel/tire set up. Im experiencing a lot of "bump steer". Is there a way of adjusting this and could this be the issue causing my wear?

[witchcraftz]

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Ouch, that sucks. Those tires a really shredded too, glad one didn't blow on you!

[miketweedie]

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do you have adjustable control arms? if not, and you still want to be slammed, now might be the perfect time to grab a set (since you're doing an alignment).
lots of options out there, and RockAuto in the US sells the same ones as everyone else for about 1/2 the price ($195 CAD per side).

http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/more...d=428&jpid=119

[Danaldson]

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Unfortunate news. I have a major problem with my tires. The fronts are absolutely shredded on the insides. I took my car to Zero Limit auto just over a month ago for an alignment. I had asked them to put as much camber on the rears as possible without causing my tires to wear out super quick. I'm wondering if he mistakenly thought i wanted camber up front as well? (i didn't think you could adjust camber on the fronts) Anyways, I'm not very happy because these tires were in pretty good shape before the alignment. So I'm going to talk to jackie and maybe ask for 2 replacement tires or at very least a free re-alignment.
Pics:





I took this crappy news as an opportunity to switch over to an 18 inch set up. I think the ind's are pretty much the perfect wheel for the b7, but I'm still addicted to being low and the new wheels will allow me to do so, while having a comfier ride at the same time. The ind's are going to the new owner this afternoon.

Choosing between two sets, i will know by this afternoon which ones i will pick but I'm just waiting on a priority shipping quote... (leavenworth is coming up very quickly) will either be 8.5/9.5 set up or 9.5's Square. Stay tuned.


Oh.... and bacon freshener. smells like maple

[witchcraftz]

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Hot Bacon!

[nismodrifter]

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Love the car. Wheels are sick. Just great.

[Danaldson]

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After seeing the vid, i now REALLY like how the skirts are camo'd too

Big fan of that front lip, Dan.

Thanks Guys. Might have a close to home vid made soon.

[Spooling_turbos]

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Big fan of that front lip, Dan.

[GingerBeef]

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After seeing the vid, i now REALLY like how the skirts are camo'd too

[Danaldson]

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You need to work on your stabilization. I'm dizzy.

I'd adjust the glidecam axes if you can.

cam is balanced fine, its my technique that needs work.

[flipstah]

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You need to work on your stabilization. I'm dizzy.

I'd adjust the glidecam axes if you can.

[cam_wmh]

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deadly.

major deadly

[Danaldson]

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Car is pretty much ready for the summer, other than a couple small things I'm going to get fixed up. I would like to get started on getting a tune/test pipe pretty soon as well.

I picked up glidecam the other day, I hope to make some videos of cars/shows this year, but they're a little tricky to get the hang of. Just needs lots of practice.