C5 - Steering wheel compliance
08-28-2007, 03:19 PM
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C5 - Steering wheel compliance
I think I've finally determined I have a problem with my front suspension.
83K miles and about 10 track events. My steering has gotten to the point of needing at least 9-10 degree's of turn, in either direction, to get wheel movement. I've always read reviews of the C5 and talk about how poor the feel is. I had a few people drive the car yesterday and they all commented on how early you had to turn in and the wheel gave no feedback.
At times I've been in the corner, dialed in what I know to be way too much wheel but nothing happens, it doesn't understeer at all.
Going down the straight at Grattan around 120 the front end becomes a bit bouncy and I need to steer it quite a bit. On braking its worse and I'm slowing from 130-133.
After cracking a rotor I drove it home and the passenger side is all over the road. It may be a shock but changing lanes at 70mph now produces the same feeling I got at 120mph.
I need to pull the corner off, maybe the stay bar end link came off.
A guy at the track was telling me he had a lot of streeing compliance also and went to poly bushings. Is there anything else I should look at while its off?
I'd love to get more direct steering in the car.
I think after yesterdays event and still for as screwed up as the car is how comfortable I am with it that its going to be a keeper. I kept going back and forth to sell or keep since I'm at the point where I need to spend money. Bushings, brakes, spindle ducts, etc.
I'll pull it apart tonight. I suspect I might have pushed a bushing out in the LCA, it was marginal last time and maybe yesterday did the trick.
83K miles and about 10 track events. My steering has gotten to the point of needing at least 9-10 degree's of turn, in either direction, to get wheel movement. I've always read reviews of the C5 and talk about how poor the feel is. I had a few people drive the car yesterday and they all commented on how early you had to turn in and the wheel gave no feedback.
At times I've been in the corner, dialed in what I know to be way too much wheel but nothing happens, it doesn't understeer at all.
Going down the straight at Grattan around 120 the front end becomes a bit bouncy and I need to steer it quite a bit. On braking its worse and I'm slowing from 130-133.
After cracking a rotor I drove it home and the passenger side is all over the road. It may be a shock but changing lanes at 70mph now produces the same feeling I got at 120mph.
I need to pull the corner off, maybe the stay bar end link came off.
A guy at the track was telling me he had a lot of streeing compliance also and went to poly bushings. Is there anything else I should look at while its off?
I'd love to get more direct steering in the car.
I think after yesterdays event and still for as screwed up as the car is how comfortable I am with it that its going to be a keeper. I kept going back and forth to sell or keep since I'm at the point where I need to spend money. Bushings, brakes, spindle ducts, etc.
I'll pull it apart tonight. I suspect I might have pushed a bushing out in the LCA, it was marginal last time and maybe yesterday did the trick.
