How 'lively' should the steering be?!

How 'lively' should the steering be?!

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Ken Figenus

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118 months

Sunday 31st March
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Absolutely loving my GT. Performed stunningly on a 250 mile Welsh blast yesterday.

Its a different car than my previous Porsche and Astons etc - the steering is dialled to be SO responsive and pointy. You cant drive this car one one handed!

I sometimes do feel its TOO lively though - was getting quite a bit of darty bump steer on one bumpy very fast straight (A4067 Defynnog to Crai if anyone knows it). Just wondered if that is the tradeoff or if it shouldn't be happening as I don't take bump steer as a positive really? 98% of the time the car is genius and so pointy and planted of course...

Might be a idea as I remember Center Gravity dialing bump steer out of a Porsche for me so who's the go-to for alignment in UK pls?

Cheers

Pic as I'm still on a high!

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Ken Figenus

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Sunday 31st March
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Cheers. The way they dialled it out of the Porsche was probably the best mod ever... No exaggeration.

Ken Figenus

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Tuesday 2nd April
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Thanks guys - prob worth a trip back to CG as they dialled it out on a previous car by having perfect symmetry - no tolerances... This one is a keeper so worth the investment.

Have to say it was absolutely seminal ride and handling pushing on this road. Loving it.


Ken Figenus

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Thursday 4th April
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ex-devonpaul said:
Nice blue car in the sea of yellow.

You must have felt like the drummer in Right Said Fred.
On my arse....biglaughclap




Ken Figenus

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Friday 5th April
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fridaypassion said:
I would assume CG will have the kit to measure the bump steer it's not the easiest thing in the world to do actually.

I had horrific bump steer on one of my Lotus cars and it was cured by resetting the toe with ballast just on one side not both as per spec.

Usually though bump steer will be a case of setting the height of the track rod ends you can only generally do this by actually adjusting the ride height.
They do a before and after drive on a bumpy B road and you just sense the lack of bump steer after the alignment - the furry dice do not move laterally any more! This on a Macan which they moved the subframe over a few mm foryes Booked in.

Thanks for the input.