rack n pinion front steer ackerman issues...explain...

omahamoparguy said

So there fore, IMHO, if you are not making any tight turns at all, you could get by with LIMITED akerman. Example could be a drag car or a dirt track or late model racer as long as you are not making tight turns all the time. However, even in these instances, I would not spin the steering arms around and mount a rack and pinion in the front, this would cause the reverse of akerman as previously stated. Now if you could fab some new types of arms and mount them on your rear steer spindles then it could be feasible for types of racing that do not require tight turning but only in those instancces. On the street, its just not a good idea at all. JMHO .

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the spindles dont care where they are being turned from. they have a top and bottom pivot point location. its like a swinging door at the store. it opens either direction when you push on it from either side. both sides of the door being pushed still opens the door. so it makes no difference to the hinge if its from inside or outside the building does it????
same goes for a cars front tire. it does not care if you pull it left or push it left. it still goes left does it not? does the pushing or pulling of that change the pivot points of the upper and lower balljoint, of course not!!!
now true about the rear steer arm can not be flipped around. not because of the arm that sticks out. it is because the actual ball angle is wrong and puts everything in the wrong location which screws the ackerman way the **** off. this is where everyone was going with that at. it was given in great detail on page 1 of this thread. it was wonderfully helpful for me but my chassis guy had found that before i even got home from dropping the car off to him. lol
so what your saying about the rest is invalid and well...frankly of billy madison ideology.