11-13-2018, 07:52 AM
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Steering gear
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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
I'm guessing by watching him work his shoulders there is manual steering in it...? Anybody know how many turns lock to lock? All work done there in first gear, right?
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That is a custom power gear, you could never drive this car with a manual gear (one turn lock to lock). He is making big corrections and is always ahead of the car. Even with power it is hard to really move the wheel that fast I hurt both my shoulders trying. We don't want to lose steering feel so not too much boost. The whole premise of the new de-stroked engine was to give us a first gear range of 16 to 68 mph but to also prevent bogging on slow corners, Rear gear is 4.88 and first gear is 2.2. The car explodes off slow corners now compared to our old set up that had more power but bogged on slow corners. It was 4.27 rear with 2.2 low and would only turn 8200. GoodGuys corners can be really tight so we have to be careful to keep manifold velocities up or we get poor throttle response and stumble. When we run SCCA events we just use second gear and have a workable range of 30 to 85 mph with no shifting. Shifts cost time unless you have a DCT or automatic.
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