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Originally Posted by PGSigns
The part you are missing is the steering arm angles. As you put input into the wheel to turn the steering arm on one side moving towards the steering pivot and the other away. This changes the amount the same input turns the spindle giving you the ackerman angle. The placement of the rack in relation to the steering arms will affect the ackerman and the bump steer. The Wilwood spindles have bolt on steering arms so they are the same on both sides.
Jimmy
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I'm going to agree with you on this.
I drew out all kinds of scenarios on paper. I came to the same conclusion. It doesn't matter if you have a trapezoid, square, rectangle, you always have 360 degrees.
What I was missing, is that the Rack is static. The tie rod's can't travel their full potential, because the Rack doesn't move.
With that being said, wouldn't a rear steer setup be better for Ackerman steering adjustment?
Also, it appears that I would indeed need the Wilwood spindles, since the steering arms are reversible, in order to move the outer tie rod towards the center of the vehicle.
(I kind of dumbed out on this one. Sometimes when you look at something hard enough, you miss the obvious.)