The scrubbing you speak of is probably more like "snowplow" effect. The wheels
turn so far that the body can't keep up with it without trying to
resume going forward.
Something else about this extreme angle the wheels turn is the trunnions do not
operate equally and one will lift as the other goes down creating an
unequal turning radius as the wheels are turned to lock.
To keep it from scrubbing, "Don't turn so sharply"!! :)
Joe
Len & Bonnie Lubbers wrote:
>
> Aha! I thought my alignment was out. After taking the car to The Sport Car
> Factory last fall, I learned that this scrubbing is supposedly one of the
> car's idiosyncrasies.
>
> Has anyone explained this before? I also thought it was due to the front
> end riding a little higher than it looks it should. (positive camber
> greater than it should be.)
>
> Len Lubbers '79 Spitfire
> Ottawa, Canada www3.sympatico.ca/lubbers
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
> ...
>
> > The Spitfire might well have the tightest turning radius when moving as
> slowly as an infant crawls. But put it up to a
> > walking pace, the and front wheels scrub horribly. A fwd car, like my old
> CRX, which had a wider turning radius of
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