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Pushy-Loose a tale of a poorly setup car (and how to fix it?)

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I was referring to a strut like in McPherson strut not inferring strut rods. Like in 16 - 17 degrees SAI vs 7 to 7-1/2 degrees SAI on SLAs. Just clearing that verbiage I'm using.
 

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I was referring to a strut like in McPherson strut not inferring strut rods. Like in 16 - 17 degrees SAI vs 7 to 7-1/2 degrees SAI on SLAs. Just clearing that verbiage I'm using.
So was I.....I've done mcPhearson strut cars, strut rod cars, A-Arm/Strut cars, SLA's, leaf spring cars....you name it. They all have their issues and workarounds.
 

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easy guys, had to sleep after a long exhausting racing weekend.

So what I've found is that the front K member LCA mount locations have opened up, allowing the control arm to have significant slop. As the car would turn in, the toe and camber would dynamically change (its a feature, not a bug? /s) and the car would move over itself. The bummer is that this has beaten up the balljoints and bushings in the LCA.

Long term fix is to replace the K member (take the points hit since my car is overweight anyways and has room), and get spherical based LCA modules (there's some stuff in development)

Short term fix is to dump the steeda LCA bushings, install prothane ones, swap to spare howe balljoints, and weld up the K member with washers and beef up the area that fastener rides on.
 

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