[TPR] Steering rack ready
DennisAntenucci
teampantera at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 17 18:10:35 PDT 2013
Cool stuff Aj...and well said Doc. Quella is great.
I would add the machined/modified upper A arm and new delrin bushings or all together new A-arms is worth the work to get 5-8 positive caster for improved high speed handling.
Of all the chasis/suspension mods Dick Drenske or others made to my Pantera including new shocks, springs etc the one mod that delivered the most noticable benefit to handling or specifically high speed handling was going from 2.5-3 degrees positive caster to 5...I understand Johnny Woods and others A-arms are getting up to 8 with their aftermarket A arms
Right out of the alignment shop after Dick did the work the seat of the pants handling improvement was big.
Mike Drew recommended 'against' the delrin offset bushings that Dick machined citing that the increased steering effort did not justify the mod but my own experience was that there was no noticable increase in steering..
Maybe a small increase in steering effort at full stop or in parking but the improvement in added caster was well worth it. And that was just going 2.5 to 5 with Dicks mod.
I think Dick is now retired (Dick you still on site??) But there are others who can do the same work.
And as JB says, "Dawg doesnt touch tools and at Silverstate we dont ever let him touch any tools"
Yea okay, I dont disagree but I am a super star too. ;-)
MD
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