Castor Drift And Steering Feel Q

[1400r]

Ive been told to run as much castor as I can get for drift as it helps the car correct itself. ie bringing the wheel back from full lock to dead straight again

I think I remember being told that it also makes the steering effort harder the steering in my 32 is already a lot heavier than my old 180 so I dont want to make it any heavier.

What are my options?

is castor that important?

at the moment the sus shop told me I have a lot of castor already just using the stock setup with a drift alignment

I drove my mates 180 back when I had mine and even his had a lot heavier steering than my 180 and Ive also driven another mates 95 180 same deal heavy steering

dont get me wrong the power steering seems to be working fine

I just cant work out why my old 180's steering response was so much lighter

ps my 180 didnt have any sus work except swaybars and sports type gab shocks

[MerlinTheHapyPig]

run as much castor as possible.

steering will feel heaps more responsive, 200% improvement for drift imo, running spherical bearing castor rods with +8 or +9 degrees castor.

shouldn't make it heavy, maybe your steering rack /ps pump is worn out or something.

Go the 4-dr r32!!!

[Nathan_G1]

Dude, after i put my adjustable castor arms on yesterday (saturday) after leaving kansai, i took it for a test drive and yeh i agree with merlin, my steering got a hell of a lot lighter and way more responsive, wen it goes to avs on tuesday for a better drift setup, i rekn itl b sweet fully sick. il try and see how much castor i can get im going for +8, +9 atleast. You know me Ryan

[Sydneykid]

Ive been told to run as much castor as I can get for drift as it helps the car correct itself. ie bringing the wheel back from full lock to dead straight again

I think I remember being told that it also makes the steering effort harder the steering in my 32 is already a lot heavier than my old 180 so I dont want to make it any heavier.

What are my options?

is castor that important?

at the moment the sus shop told me I have a lot of castor already just using the stock setup with a drift alignment

I drove my mates 180 back when I had mine and even his had a lot heavier steering than my 180 and Ive also driven another mates 95 180 same deal heavy steering

dont get me wrong the power steering seems to be working fine

I just cant work out why my old 180's steering response was so much lighter

ps my 180 didnt have any sus work except swaybars and sports type gab shocks

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Similar to what the guys have already posted, lots of caster and R type tyres and the steering is still not heavy. In fact I reckon it is a bit light if anything. What toe and camber settings do you have? What size tyres and offset wheels?

A 180 is hell of a lot lighter over the front wheels than a Skyline, plus the double wishbone suspension generates more grip than the simple struts in a 180, wider tyres etc. So I would always expect a Skyline to have more steering feel than a 180.

cheers

[Nathan_G1]

Castor it up brother, its fully sick....but yeh ul only get i think +3 max on standard arms, so go for more, tie rod ends will help with greater turn circle.......my next adventure perhaps

[1400r]

I see what you mean sydney I really just mean the weight of the steering wheel. I was think maybe my PS pumps on the way out but I dont know why a few other cars Ive driven have been the same ie heavy steering while my old car had really light steering that you could flick it really easily which I liked for drifting

at the moment Im run 215/55 r16 on a set of s15 stockies sorry I dont know the offset sus guy just set I was running a fair bit of castor already for just the stock stuff and no adj camber arms so stockish camber?

Im trying to buy some cheap adj castor rods now I'll see how that goes

maybe I'll steal Nathan G1's car tommorow night at Port G

Edited November 13, 2005 by 1400r

[dangerous_daveo]

Out of interest is the steering wheel smaller than your old car? As if its smaller you will have less leaverage, making it feel heavier. Maybe anyway.

[Nathan_G1]

STEAL MY CAR MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! its at AVS ya putz.....gettin me some work done to slide sick ways. Maybe next week monday u can steal my car........who knows il probly just let u drive it if u ask nicely

[1400r]

Im running a Nardi like on my old car but its bigger than the one I had on my 180 the car felt good tonight I did the big sweeper corner a few times sic!

I will get the rear toe in put back to straight as the rear didnt feel real nice to me?

It was still push understeering a little(rev dump will fix that) Ive ordered my castor rods.

I spoke to some guy from team dynamic's today for a while about a few other things I can try like good tyres lower profile, lots of castor +7 or more and lowering my car another 50 mm?

[Nathan_G1]

My car i rekn will b fully sick next practice - im booked in the next 2 weeks dude, il try my hardest to do good, get avs to set it up wen u get ur castor arms, il install em for ya properly if ya want