OK didn'r realise you had removed yours already - thought you had looked at a couple loose racks you had laying around
OK didn'r realise you had removed yours already - thought you had looked at a couple loose racks you had laying around
RokuSteady : Shakotan - Tsuraichi - Hippari - Onikyan : 神奈川 様式
sundee86: I think your 156mm stoke rack is not the GTV one, but a longer one the tuning shop put in. (Only 4mm longer than Apex, but easy to make from cutting a Corona/Carina/Celica/Camry one). GT and Apex has 152mm stoke, GTV has 130mm. And the normal rack you had on the floor, I think is a KE70 one. I would recomend you put the 156mm stroke rack back in, but remove the lock spacer. As you say yourself, the rack is already the correct length to give the most steering angle possible. If you want more angle, you had better see where the tyres hit first. You would need longer lower control arms for sure.
I suspect that it would be common in Japan, to replace the GTV rack with the normal 152mm stoke one, to increase steering angle. Or start with a GT or Apex manual steer model, and fit PS/GTV knuckles for the same effect. To make use of even more angle with spacers or stepped rack ends, I think you need longer lower crontrol arms or negative RCA's.
Sweet custom rack!! Yeww I've already put the 156mm rack back in with lock spacer , I'm going to leave it that way n go longer LCA's later and if it still scrubs out then out comes the hammer.
i've just got a standard rack thats as sloppy as a nuns nasty. i was going to rebuild it but i'd much prefer a quaife. anyone know where i can get the neccisary bits? or even a whole thing already done cos i'm lazy. i'm not interested in extra lock.
Marvis:
We should do tandems. It will be like making love.
And I will run into you.
you'd understand if you knew the nun i know. was a prostitute now born again catholic nun!!!! bit of an inside joke with mates.
anyone know where i can get my hands on quaife stuff?
Marvis:
We should do tandems. It will be like making love.
And I will run into you.
palmside NZ, pretty cheap at the moment too, one place where the exchange rate works out good..........
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BENT MECHANIX - Garage 20:
I got a quaife and its more like 2.25 lock-lock. Its easy once you keep moving but on slow speeds and parking its like turning a manual van...not fun! Steering is quick though!
I also have a GTV rack ready to go in the new car, its 3 lock-lock - getting old and muscles are tiring from parking...let me know if you need any data as its still apart.
In my current 86 I have a quiafe rack (was installed before I bought it). In my old 86 I had a standard rack with PS arms. Btw both cars had/have RCA's.
I agree with everyone about steering being direct, twitchy and fast. Also agree it is heavy at low speed.
One thing I am not happy with is the feel when drifting, the best way to describe it is like it becomes very heavy again when sliding, especially when winding off lock once already sliding (increasing angle).
The other thing I find is it feels very 'bump steery', when sliding if you go over an undulation or even during heavy weight shifts (scando flicks) it feels like the wheel is trying to be ripped out of your hands.
I drove my mates 86 recently at qr with standard rack and PS arms and it felt a bit more vague but light and controlable.
Just my opinion, does anyone else agree?