VtecPaul
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Hi folks,
Thought I‘d ask in here as the Facebook post didn‘t get quite the responses I was looking for, potentially due to having multiple questions on the same post.
My DC5 has a tendency to drift to the right constantly (ie not just under acceleration, on all road surfaces). I recently had the alignment redone at TGM and I‘ve attached the results to this post.
The issue is much better now, but it still drifts to the right which isn‘t ideal. I‘d like to understand what else I can do to combat/rectify this, as well as understand my latest alignment results.
I'm most confused by the front left and the caster measurements. Before alignment it was 2.07, and after it is 5.77. The after cross-caster result is now much worse than it was previously (if I understand the results correctly)
Questions:
I didn‘t believe caster was adjustable. I understand it changes slightly with camber changes, but this seems pretty drastic?
Cross-caster can cause the car to pull to the side, and in this case the numbers could explain why the car pulls to the right?
Could it be that my subframe alignment is out? Would the subframe lockout kit help to straighten this and reduce cross-caster, potentially helping with the drifting issue?
Apparently my car has hard race LCA bushes, although I have no receipts to prove this (it was on the spec list from previous owner) but don‘t think this would be relevant here? Not sure if it‘s easy to visually identify these if the car is jacked up?
Thanks in advance.
Thought I‘d ask in here as the Facebook post didn‘t get quite the responses I was looking for, potentially due to having multiple questions on the same post.
My DC5 has a tendency to drift to the right constantly (ie not just under acceleration, on all road surfaces). I recently had the alignment redone at TGM and I‘ve attached the results to this post.
The issue is much better now, but it still drifts to the right which isn‘t ideal. I‘d like to understand what else I can do to combat/rectify this, as well as understand my latest alignment results.
I'm most confused by the front left and the caster measurements. Before alignment it was 2.07, and after it is 5.77. The after cross-caster result is now much worse than it was previously (if I understand the results correctly)
Questions:
I didn‘t believe caster was adjustable. I understand it changes slightly with camber changes, but this seems pretty drastic?
Cross-caster can cause the car to pull to the side, and in this case the numbers could explain why the car pulls to the right?
Could it be that my subframe alignment is out? Would the subframe lockout kit help to straighten this and reduce cross-caster, potentially helping with the drifting issue?
Apparently my car has hard race LCA bushes, although I have no receipts to prove this (it was on the spec list from previous owner) but don‘t think this would be relevant here? Not sure if it‘s easy to visually identify these if the car is jacked up?
Thanks in advance.