Car is pulling right .. please help

[Lady N]

Hey what about your rims ,did you buy them with the tires ??? a defective rim could cause it also .

[glamcem]

Originally Posted by Lady N

Hey what about your rims ,did you buy them with the tires ??? a defective rim could cause it also .

nope ,they're oem Z06 wheels that came with car.. there's no visual damage other than some scratches ..i believe if it was the rims ,it'd be more obvious (vibration and pulling ) however there's no vibration it's just drifting to right (slightly)

[glamcem]

Originally Posted by gmjunkie

Well he ain't No Alignment man then!!(Classic to cover ones A$$ if they find that things need shifted!! They want Easy $$ not what they have to work for!)If it pulls somethings not right!!Granted the road can have something to do with it,But if you have a light constant right pull,Either you have a bad tire or the car isn't set up right!!It happens that sometimes a New Tire is bad but I'd bet on the alignment!I'd like to see the print out. Please

i found my print out , lol ..i had to look everywhere to find damn thing

so here it is


FRONT
Caster Left = 6.9
Right = 7.1

Camber Left = -0.9
Right = -0.8

Toe Left = 0.04
Right = 0.03
total toe=0.07

REAR
Camber Left = -0.5
Right = -0.6

Toe Left = -0.01
Right = 0.02
Total toe= 0.01

Thrust Angle = -0.01

what do you think?

[MRS. XTREME]

From your numbers the split in the caster looks to be your pull problem.

Chris is an old circle track racer and he says that they use to run the caster split like that. He would run more positive caster in the right front than in the left and it would cause the car to pull to the left which made the car easier to turn on a circle track .

See if you can get them to equalize the caster in each side and that should fix your problem. They need to get that thrust angle to 0.00.

If you want to make the car feel more responsive run 0 toe in the front and a 1/16 toed in the rear end.

Just my humble opinion

[glamcem]

actually my car pulls to right not left
and
another thing to mention i got 275 /40/17 s front tires unlike factory specs 265s (gs d3 only comes on that size) would that effect anything? it'd be nice to drive a more responsive car btw , for some reason steering feelse kinda numb maybe it's b/c my older car was an Subaru STI..i dunno

[MRS. XTREME]

Sorry ,I sure ran my mouth and didnt realize I was reading it wrong...

Regardless you should never have a split it should always be dead even.

The car could be crabbing(when the back tires are not tracking right)
down the road and the act of correcting this would be to put input into the steering wheel which could be interpreted as the pulling effect.

[gmjunkie]

Originally Posted by MRS. XTREME

From your numbers the split in the caster looks to be your pull problem.

Chris is an old circle track racer and he says that they use to run the caster split like that. He would run more positive caster in the right front than in the left and it would cause the car to pull to the left which made the car easier to turn on a circle track .

See if you can get them to equalize the caster in each side and that should fix your problem. They need to get that thrust angle to 0.00.

If you want to make the car feel more responsive run 0 toe in the front and a 1/16 toed in the rear end.

Just my humble opinion

I purdy much agree!! It needs a little more caster on the right front!!I'd get rid of some of the negative camber too,It's almost at the limit on the front!!(It will be hard on the inside of the front tires!!) I run 0*camber all the way around with 6*+ Caster Lt Front,6.4*+ Caster Rt Front,1/32-1/6 toe in, with 1/64 Rear toe in on my 03 Z-51!!
And I run 6.7*+ Caster Lt Front,7.2*+ Caster Rt Front with .1*- Camber all the way around, with 1/16 Toe in Front,1/32 Toe in Rear on my 01 Z06!! Both cars sail down the road Striate!!! I have my Z-51 set up a little different because it's mostly my over the road car and it makes it allot easier on tires and easier to steer in traffic,But a bit of a Hand Full above 135-140 MPH!! The Z06 is my Mountain Twisties car so I have it a little tighter!!

[gmjunkie]

Originally Posted by MRS. XTREME

Regardless you should never have a split it should always be dead even.

I guess we'll have to Agree to Disagree, On a Perfectly Flat road maybe,But Most roads have at least a 7-8 inch or more crown!!

[MRS. XTREME]

Originally Posted by gmjunkie

I guess we'll have to Agree to Disagree, On a Perfectly Flat road maybe,But Most roads have at least a 7-8 or more inch crown!!

For street driving you are probably right.
I was just going off when Chris races corvettes.

[glamcem]

so what shoud i do ? where should i take my car to? any opinions ?gmjunkie where do you live ? would you pm me your adress and info ..thanks