Wednesday, October 14, 2009

I have been stripping the chassis of all components, so I can transfer them to the new chassis. I decided to try to improve the turning radius on the new build. The current turning radius is quite large. I am using a Miata power steering rack, which has about 2" of throw in each direction with 2.5 turns of the steering wheel lock-to-lock.

The only way I can determine to increase turning radius is to either find a rack with more throw, or shorten the steering arms on the spindles. Studying pictures of Miata spindles, the steering arms appear to be half as long as my Alfa spindle steering arms.

The good thing is my steering arms can be un-bolted from the spindles. Yesterday I drew a shortened set of arms on auto-cad. Hopefully next week I can have them cut on the waterjet. If they work I will have pics to post next week.

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