The OPTIMA Batteries OneLapCamaro - Final Preparations

[James OLC]

While all of the sway bar tuning is going on, David is working on his own Skunk Works style project – reengineering the steering on the car to provide clearance for wider front wheels and tires as well as near ideal bumpsteer and alignment.

We were starting with this:



And hoping for something like this:



To do that he created a new center link, repositioning the inner tie rod end pickup points:



Rebuilt the steering arms – moving the outer tie rod end pickup point up:



And found a new inner tie rod end that worked with a custom fabricated adjustor sleeve and a rod end for the outer…



The result was near ideal bumpsteer characteristics, no shims (but the ability to add them if need be) and more than enough clearance for the wheels: