Increasing turning radius?

[Cow]

Is it possible to increase a car's turning radius? My car's turning radius is really small, hence making really sharp u-turns and 3-point turns sometimes turn into 5-6 point turns.. lol

 

[JINEIL2EN]

Is it possible to increase a car's turning radius? My car's turning radius is really small, hence making really sharp u-turns and 3-point turns sometimes turn into 5-6 point turns.. lol

simple.
1. hard pedal a bit
2. prepare to pull/push ur emergency brake
3. pull/push ur emergency brake at the right time
4. pedal to steel, feel the slicing feel at the rear tires
5. keep the steering back to normal/straight
6. the front will pull the rear into normal track
7. 1 point U-Turn is complete.........

 

[JINEIL2EN]

haha, forgot to told u as well,
Life is Short, Pls dun try this at Home, its very dangerous!
haha...

 

[netmatrix]

Can increase, but not many people would mod it. Only drifters like to mod the streering turn in angle. I'm not sure is any mechanic here does it. But i'm sure some drifters here does it.

 

[JINEIL2EN]

Can increase, but not many people would mod it. Only drifters like to mod the streering turn in angle. I'm not sure is any mechanic here does it. But i'm sure some drifters here does it.

just make a few more of the teeth on the rack...

 

[GoldenHawk]

...and let the tires scrape your inner wall? I think it's requires more than that. Offsets & shaft layouts have to be considered. PLEASE get a professional to do it.

 

[huakenny]

i not sure wat is ur car..

some car can get a steering rack assembly from chopshop n fix to their ride...

if ur current steering rack/pinion gear is small...then u gotta find a bigger one...this wil improve ur turning radius.

for example, impreza wrx can put in STI version steering rack n pinion set...it will improves the turning radius as STi gear is bigger than wrx.

for other car models, i not sure..

cheers

 

[Cow]

ooohhh, hmmm..dunno whether got such thing for my car or not.
is it costly? the rack and pinion thingy from chopshop

 

[satria_95]

jineil,
hahaha I do that quite a bit of times but when you don't have enough run way to sprint your car, then end of story. 6 point u-turn again. hehe

 

[tajulsans]

i think u wanna reduce it rite?? to make u turn easier?? well what u can do is adjust at the tie rod so that your steering favor to the right.. makes U turn better as mostly our u turn on the right side but at the expence of worst turning on the left side le.. kekekek

 

[huakenny]

tie rod cant adjust le...it only can adjsut the freeplay...

if ur turning radius for left side n right side is not equal...then tat is alignment problem....

to reduce to turning radius...u hv to replace a bigger pinion gear in the steering rack assembly...

but normaly here just buy the whole thing n change la...easy

wat car le?

 

[Joeker]

Cow,

It depends on your steering linkage, whether its rack and pinion or LM ball screw type design

Also depend on your steering castors design

So basically the guy who is to mod your steering angle needs to look at your car's steering linkage before deciding whether its possible or not.

Here is pic of a car who has done the steering angle (for drift angle purpose)

The steering lingkage design on the car in this pic was rather simple and straight forward (newer cars tend to have more complex steering linkage for comfort, handling, etc, etc) therefore the amount of work to mod it was not complicated.

 

[Cow]

ohhh, so "smaller turning radius" means less effort to turn? hehe ok ok my bad :P any mods want to edit the title of this thread? *paiseh*

huakenny: it's a hyundai coupe only ler

joe: oohh, thanks for the info man...I think I roughly know what to do now...