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Old 07-14-2013, 07:44 PM
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On the subject of caster, I do have another question...

I've heard that changing the amount of caster has an impact on the 'feel' of the steering. I've also heard that caster is often used in a street alignment to offset the irregularities that we may experience when driving down the road.

Can you touch on either or both of those, particular how either would relate to the KPI / SAI as you explained them above? Is there a crossover point, for example, on how increasing / decreasing the caster will affect the steering 'feel'? I ask partly because if that's true, I wonder if you can hit a point where we might 'overwork' the steering rack we are using? In other words, I would guess that if we make a change to the caster that causes us to have to use more force to turn the wheels, are we possibly putting more pressure on the rack, and risk damaging it?

I'm thinking out loud with that question, so perhaps it's irrelevant... But in my case, since I'm using a Ford rack that was likely never built to take much abuse, I wonder if that can become a problem?
 


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