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Re: Ball joint taper, rack and pinion

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Subject: Re: Ball joint taper, rack and pinion
From: racery@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:38:38 +0000
heh heh-
make the rack effective working length shorter than the distance between the 
ball joints. 

 As to how much, that's a subject for tomes- what do you want the car to do?  
"Proper" geometric Ackerman angle is usually overkill, given that tires will 
assume a pretty significant slip angle before they scrub, camber rotation 
changes the effective track width, and also adds camber...
I bet you could swap a rack in place of the center drag link and not be too far 
off.  As to bump steer, etc, ???

yappy today,
Toby



> Has anyone swapped to rack and pinion steering?
> 
> How did you get the ackerman right?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andy






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