Can you drift in a stock 86 GXL W/H front toe eliminator

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Old Apr 8, 2008 | 03:12 PM
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i hear people saying that its hard to drift in a fc without a toe eliminator. do you need a eor eliminator to drift? what does a toe eliminator do anyways.
Old Apr 8, 2008 | 05:08 PM
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they are bushings that eliminate the rear steer geomitry of the stock fc rear suspention. there is a night and day differance in the car when you use them. no more snap recovories with the bushings installed. well well worth the money.





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Old Apr 8, 2008 | 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by fc3sboy1' post='898153' date='Apr 8 2008, 03:08 PM
they are bushings that eliminate the rear steer geomitry of the stock fc rear suspention. there is a night and day differance in the car when you use them. no more snap recovories with the bushings installed. well well worth the money.





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whoops i misread. thought you where talking about the rear steer bushings. any ways

you can do anything you want but when building a fc for road racing i have knowticed alot of suspention things. like if you lower the frount end of an fc to 4" rail ride hight the center of gavity is then pushed below the ground, or so im told and what helps move it up so you dont have to run extreamly stiff frount springs is to use s4 lower control arms and flip the location of the ball joint to the top of the control arm. when doing this it levels out the control arm with out efecting the ride height andmoves the center of gavity to just about ground level so you can soften the frount end. anyways ya toe eliminators help with bump steer also.



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Old Apr 11, 2008 | 03:22 PM
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ok that helps alittle. guess ill just drift without them.
Old Apr 11, 2008 | 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by fc3sboy1' post='898154' date='Apr 8 2008, 06:17 PM
the center of gavity is then pushed below the ground...

andmoves the center of gavity to just about ground level
I'm pretty darn sure that's impossible (unless you're driving on a surface elevated off the ground, with weight hanging below the level of the driving surface).
Old Apr 15, 2008 | 11:15 AM
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You can drift without Toe elimiator bushings. The car will feel a little more steady and will transition somewhat quicker if you have them but you can certainly drift with the stock bushings. Your biggest problem is the power level and your differential.
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