<VV> Quick Steering Again

[Mike Stillwell]

 Thanks for recentering the thread, Bob! 

 One other thing that I'd like to mention, for the
more frugal owners... I ran for 2 years with factory
fast arms and a standard box. When I later added the
factory quick box, I could hardly tell much of an
improvement over arms alone. I.E., the factory arms
made the biggest difference, as least as far as I
could tell. A good used pair of factory arms can be
had for around 100, last time I checked, maybe a
little more. Just food for thought.

 Mike
 YS-117, etc.

--- HallGrenn at aol.com wrote:

> Mark, Mike Stillwell and All,
> 
> As sometimes happens not being specific enough gets
> in the way of 
> communication.  In my earlier post I meant to say
> that if you are going to change to a 
> factory box use the factory arms (quick or normal)
> too.  If you can't get both 
> the factory box will help but not give full effect. 
> I do not recommend using 
> after market arms with the factory quick box. 
> Seth's response was the clearest 
> (he sells the stuff too).  Mike and others are
> perfectly correct too (no box 
> or no arms Mike?:)).  Picture the Pittman arm, idler
> arm, steering arms, tie 
> rods, etc. as a parallelogram.  The Ackerman angle
> should not change unless you 
> change a part of the parallelogram.  The steering
> box transfers your steering 
> wheel input to the parallelogram.  If you only use
> the factory (or Flaming 
> River) box your Ackerman angle does not change.  If
> you use the factory quick 
> box and the factory arms (which were designed for
> the job) then you will get the 
> full benefit of the option without sacrificing daily
> handling (and your 
> tires).  If you are a racer whatever allows you to
> go faster without sacrificing 
> safety is the goal and the Ackerman angle may not be
> as critical.
> 
> Hope this help clarify my point.  I don't pretend to
> be an engineer so if 
> I've really fouled up let me know.
> 
> Bob Hall
> Group Corvair
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