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driftaholic 03-27-2004 04:40 PM

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Did the steering mod took me about 15 mins of work and 6$ at ace worth of aluminum tubing that I used for a spacer, have enough extra to do like 20 cars.



I can make a u turn in the street now w/o touching the curbs and I only used 1/4" spacer due to the fact that there is not enough room to ajust the toe in to where I want it with any larger spacer.



seems I could have more steering angle if the tire wasn't hitting the sway bar. also to settle some other disputes there is over 2 inches till the tice hits the lower control arm. I could only get them to hit w/o the tie rod attached to the spindle.



BEFORE:

driftaholic 03-27-2004 04:40 PM

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driftaholic 03-27-2004 04:41 PM

May not look like much buts thats all there is to gain. Looks are deciveing it feels a ton better!

RETed 03-27-2004 09:23 PM

Shim the steering tie rod down?





-Ted

mazdaspeed7 03-28-2004 12:59 PM

Can you go into more detail on exactly what you did? Pics would be especially helpful.

rx7_re 03-28-2004 01:30 PM

Yes, please go into some more detail.

driftaholic 03-29-2004 12:25 AM

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I did this:

curtasy of Ranzo



an now that i understand the pricipal of the device I will be making a tredded insert that threads into the steering rack and the tie ros will thread into it to maximise the steering of the FC. you WILL need a lesser offset wheel to clear the sway bar.

ColinRX7 03-29-2004 12:27 AM

I can't read those words... https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png

-=RX-7 KID=- 03-29-2004 01:17 AM

Can you do this to a FD?

driftaholic 03-29-2004 01:31 AM

I don't see why not, most steering racks are nearly the same.


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