Q-Steer Steering Alignment Part I

This might help some of you who have problems regarding the irregular distribution of steering angle on your Q-steers. This problem usually appear on brand new ones, having the difficulty of thinking how the hell the steering is sharper on one particular side.

What I’m going to do is not sharpen the other side but rather balance the steering, just making the steering angles equal. I’ll use two Lancer Evolutions as examples.

First of all I tested the steering of the car to see which direction might need alignment. I used Evo X here:

So I started by driving from one edge of this particular surface to the left of the car.

Seems fine, pretty sharp turn. Now it’s time to do the other direction. I placed the car properly on the edge again and drove it to the right:

And from there, here is the result:

It almost got out of the surface. So here’s one problem because this is a brand new car with one obvious technical flaw. This is what Idid:

A. I’ve noticed before that when I steer, some of my cars have wiggling front wheels. I tried to tighten them by pounding lightly on the wheel hubs.

1. remove the wheel from the suspension arm.

2. Check how loose the wheel by placing an electronics positive screwdrive on the hub onto the ground and move the wheel up and down. If you feel that it’s not tight (it is not, actually) then pound it lightly until the wheel is secured in place.

3. if you pounded on the hub too much that the wheel does not spin, try to pound the other side of the hub, lightly. In this case, I used one pylon so that when I pound the hub, it will be easy for the hub to move since there’s a space in the middle of the wheel.

4. using a very small screwdriver, I pound the opposite side of the hub lightly and checked again if the wheel is tight in place and spinning freely.

I did that on the Evo VII that has the same problem. here’s the result:

Same test as above. Now let me do the same on the Evo X

So I removed both wheels and checked if I can tighten the wheels more. Here is the result:

As you can see, the steering angle to the right now makes the car ONE CAR from the other edge. The steering angle to the left have widen a bit because of the balancing effect made to the car. For some cars, this might work but only a bit. I have not gone into the smaller bits of steering alignment but I think this is one large step. Some cars might improve their handling by doing this but still has small difference in steering angles. For example, that Evo X above are both one car away from the other edge but if you have noticed, the left turn is still sharper than the right. What I did with it is adjust the wheel alignment. The Evolution VII, for example, has the whole wheel alignment to the right but still runs straight. I don’t know why but it is a good thing that the wheel alignment is there. I hope this will help to you guys. Cheers~!