Steers like Crap
Excellent pics
I am pulling the engine out now . i will take a look , I bet I will find cracks . This is my 7 th year of taking it to road racing track and the steering has gotten worse. I have concentrated on the components but not the mounts
You might not, but especially if you're road racing you'll want to check for them. The factory quality control on the welding was pretty poor, some K frames have great welding, but a lot, especially on the A-bodies, seem pretty bad. I fully seam weld and reinforce all of my K frames now. The steering box mount gets fully boxed, and the LCA pivot sleeves get reinforced as well.
Most alignment shops will not adjust the front end to other than stock specs.
I usually find a kid and pay him cash under the table , it works but i cany always
How do you guys get your front ends aligned to custom specs?
Yup, that is exactly what I have found. All the major name shops will only do factory alignment specs. A lot of them will also not do an alignment if you have aftermarket parts that were not installed by that shop.
I do my own alignments now. I have a set of turntables and slip plates, toe plates, and use a FastTrax caster camber gauge. The first few times definitely took some trial and error, but with some practice it's not that bad. And I can set whatever specs I like whenever I want. Buying the turn plates used and everything else new it still paid for itself with a couple of alignments.
I will try = 6.5 Caster
I am also running 275/35/18s
I was wrong initially
I figured that was a typo, I didn't think you fit 30" tall tires on the front of your car. :D
You may not be able to get that much caster, it depends on your control arms. Even most non-adjustable tubular UCA's won't get you to +6.5° caster. I have SPC adjustable UCA's on my car to get those specs. Currently I'm running -1° camber, +6.5° caster and between 1/16" and 1/8" toe in. I have a set of toe plates and use a tape measure, so I can't really say it's 3/32". Just that it falls between 1/16" and 1/8".