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Location:
Tasmania
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: removing Ackerman Steering
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Mon, 02 September 2002 14:51
 
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This is all most interesting to me. I am one of those few crazy people that has actualy cut and welded my steering knuckles experimenting with things like this, and driven it on the road for about 2 years. Don't tell anyone.
The last time I did this my aim was to quicken the steering (by making the arms shorter), and also add more ackerman. I wanted to get the "correct" ackerman angles, as the standard car was not perfectly correct in toeout on turns. (This also changed bump steer, but never mind that). For a track/road car, like a F1 or something, having correct ackerman should improve grip as the wheels are pointing the dirrection they should be with minimal slip. On a production road car, the ackermann effect is reduced to keep the turning circle small. When I changed this to have thereticaly corrrect ackermann angles, I lost some lock-to-lock movement, and the turning circle became larger. This is the main thing that is not good for a rally car. I would spin out in some turns because I ran out of lock!
I am cutting my knucles again soon, and will take out all the ackermann angles (and keeping them short for quick steering), but I may gain some bump steer but don't worry about that.
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5KinKP60 | Sat, 31 August 2002 00:07 |
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jazae86 | Sun, 01 September 2002 05:54 |
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justcallmefrank | Sun, 01 September 2002 06:33 |
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Bill Sherwood | Sun, 01 September 2002 11:31 |
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jazae86 | Sun, 01 September 2002 13:06 |
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5KinKP60 | Sun, 01 September 2002 16:06 |
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jazae86 | Sun, 01 September 2002 16:20 |
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5KinKP60 | Mon, 02 September 2002 13:07 |
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Jonny2TG | Mon, 02 September 2002 14:51 |
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5KinKP60 | Mon, 02 September 2002 18:49 |
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Jonny2TG | Tue, 03 September 2002 01:40 |
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gold28 | Tue, 03 September 2002 03:49 |
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Jonny2TG | Tue, 03 September 2002 05:10 |
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gold28 | Tue, 03 September 2002 06:06 |
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Jonny2TG | Tue, 03 September 2002 13:06 |
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Jonny2TG | Sun, 08 September 2002 17:17 |
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5KinKP60 | Sun, 08 September 2002 18:42 |
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Jonny2TG | Mon, 09 September 2002 17:45 |
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oldcorollas | Mon, 17 November 2003 06:10 |
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Lambolica | Mon, 17 November 2003 06:16 |
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Jonny2TG | Mon, 09 September 2002 17:57 |
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TurboRA28 | Mon, 17 November 2003 00:48 |
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Jonny2TG | Tue, 18 November 2003 07:33 |
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gold28 | Mon, 17 November 2003 02:28 |
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TurboRA28 | Mon, 17 November 2003 03:25 |
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Lambolica | Mon, 17 November 2003 03:49 |
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TurboRA28 | Mon, 17 November 2003 04:03 |
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Lambolica | Mon, 17 November 2003 04:06 |
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gold28 | Mon, 17 November 2003 04:03 |
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Lambolica | Mon, 17 November 2003 04:13 |
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TurboRA28 | Mon, 17 November 2003 04:10 |
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gold28 | Mon, 17 November 2003 04:34 |
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gold28 | Mon, 17 November 2003 04:50 |
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Lambolica | Mon, 17 November 2003 05:02 |
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TurboRA28 | Mon, 17 November 2003 04:45 |
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TurboRA28 | Mon, 17 November 2003 05:35 |
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gearb0x | Mon, 17 November 2003 08:32 |
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