Thanks. All the credits go to my mechanic Peter Onken from Katella Classics, who has done this great job.

I think the first long drive will be in March or April, depending on the weather. At least we want to make in April the trip to the Mustang Fever in Belgium. This is an annual Mustang only meeting organized by the Mustang Garage in Heusden Zolder. This year there were about 350 Mustangs from Belgium, The Netherlands, England, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland. It's quite an event and very famous among Mustang enthusiasts. So that will be a nice test drive.

Ron

Here are a few pictures of the Mustang Fever 2013:  http://imageshack.us/g/1/10239200/


These are sets of other classic car meetings in The Netherlands and Belgium:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27932319@N00/sets/

http://imageshack.us/g/1/10239152/

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MustangSteve wrote:

But, wait a minute...  Just having them parallel in static position isn't going to help, is it?  Have you driven it and seen any improvement?  The fact the distance between the inner tie rods and the outer tie rods is way shorter than the distance from the inner control arm pivot to the ball joint is going to induce some pretty serious bumpsteer..

 
That my friends seems to be the problem with the early Flaming River system. There has been a lot of internet chatter on this issue since the introduction of FR's R&P.
The new one seems to have addressed the problem but I have yet to read of any that have been installed.
It seems that Unisteer and Total Control have the least problems.

Anytime the ride height is altered from stock bump steer rears its ugly head.  Even the lowered newer cars, right up to the S197's suffer from bump steer as indicated by the number of companies making  kits to correct the geometry.

I have only driven about two miles, from the garage to home. The weather here at the moment is not Mustang convertible friendly. Rain, strong wind, sometimes stormy and when there is snow the car remains inside. A test drive has to wait.

The Flaming River R&P is brandnew. I bought it this year and it's installed in March. I hoped the movement of the pedal support would minimize the bumpsteer. But after reading the comment here it will be probably still present. I don't think there are other solutions in my case for completly eliminate the bumpsteer. Shortening the lower control arm or extend the tie rods will not be an option.

Ron

I'd check the bump steer before I drove it since driving won't happen till the spring. Remove the spring, and check the toe at about 2" intervals thru the suspension travel.

hmartin025 wrote:

This makes a pretty good argument for the "Borgenson Steering Box". Mine works pretty slick!!!
Howard

 
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Sometimes a picture is worth a ....

Although once in a while bumpsteer may occur, the benefit of the rack en pinion steering is much greather than the disadvantages. Driving on the highway was quite a job to keep the car in the lane. Also on small country road or in parkings it was always to pay extra attention to the steering. Now the steering is direct.


Today I went for a three hours drive, highway, bumpy countryroads and everything between this. Until now I experienced no bumpsteer issues.
Any other problems that may occur, I let you know.

Ron

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