anybody know of a company that makes a kit to reduce bumpsteer?

 

It's not like you can get some bushings or bolt something on to reduce bump steer. You'd need to alter the suspension geometry. You'd need different length upper and lower control arms. You'd have to move the steering rack. Stuff like that.

 

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Just wondering, you're not running Urethane trailing arm bushings are you?

 

nope. still riding on probably the bushings that came on the car new.

 

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Ok good just checking, because those cause bumpsteer too so I thought you had them and were wondering why it was bumpsteering

 

just wanted to mention that I have the Prothane RTA bushings in my 91 hatch and the thing corners like it's on rails now

 

Try getting an alignment, mine was bump steering like mad and I got an alignment and it was fine.

 

How the **** do rear trailing arms cause bumpsteer? You're crazy.

Are we talking about the same thing here? Bumpsteer is a change in the toe angle when the ride height changes. It's built into the Honda suspension on purpose, and there's no completely removing it without drastic changes to your suspension components.

 

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Are we talking about the same thing here? Bumpsteer is a change in the toe angle when the ride height changes. It's built into the Honda suspension on purpose, and there's no completely removing it without drastic changes to your suspension components.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Urethane T/A bushings restrict some of the movement that the OEM bushings were designed to allow, threfore causing it to bind and cause you to steer when you hit a bump. They probably use the term bumpsteer incorrectly but thats why I asked about the trailing arm bushings, so dont ******* call me crazy.

Here's a post explaining what i'm talking about
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=493789

 

May be these J's racing roll center adjusters will help (see below link). I'm going to get some for my 1991 CRX. The link below doesn't have them for the EF civic, but J's Racing in Japan does make them.

I have a set of battle version roll center adjusters on my 1987 Corolla GTS (AE86) and it reduced the bumpsteer by a large amount. No more having to fight the steering wheel when the car gets upset over little bumps while cornering.

http://www.aj-racing.com/produ...acing

 

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He's absolutely right. upgraded bushings should not effect it at all, replacing destroyed bushings might. Getting an alignment is what will fix it, and listen to your alignment guys, if they say your car is too low and they can't correct it completely, raise your car.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ra21benj &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">May be these J's racing roll center adjusters will help (see below link). I'm going to get some for my 1991 CRX. The link below doesn't have them for the EF civic, but J's Racing in Japan does make them.

I have a set of battle version roll center adjusters on my 1987 Corolla GTS (AE86) and it reduced the bumpsteer by a large amount. No more having to fight the steering wheel when the car gets upset over little bumps while cornering.

http://www.aj-racing.com/produ...acing</TD></TR></TABLE>

Roll canter adjusters (as they call them) actually keep the LCA lower and more parallel with the ground. The thing is, that they actually cause MORE bumpsteer. I have installed them (J'S RCAdjusters) and though they keep the LCA lower correcting the geometry of the suspension, they do bad the same time, by getting the LCA sit in different angle with the tie rod. So if you want a fix on bumpsteer, get RCA and a race TIE ROD kit (it should icnlude spacers to get the tie rod sit lower and parallel with your LCA)