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car steers to the right and shakes during hard acceleration (solved)

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Old Jul 22, 2010 | 03:34 PM
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Default car steers to the right and shakes during hard acceleration (solved)

I did a launch to 7 k and my car steered hard to the right and shaked like krazy, went to the other lane, also noticed my steering has a slight shake vibration during mild acceleratin, just got an alignment thinking its my axle?
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Old Jul 22, 2010 | 05:04 PM
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ahh the joys of torque steer!
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Old Jul 22, 2010 | 05:47 PM
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Check the motor mounts.
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Old Jul 22, 2010 | 06:10 PM
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Default Re: car steers to the right and shakes during hard acceleration

Originally Posted by RonJ@HT
Check the motor mounts.
I know my passenger side is just stock, but i know driver side is has mounts.

How you suppose to check for bad motor mounts?
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Old Jul 22, 2010 | 06:18 PM
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Default Re: car steers to the right and shakes during hard acceleration

Check if they (below) are loose or broken.

Transmission mount, rear mount, driver's side mount, and the two front torque mounts.
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Old Jul 22, 2010 | 08:05 PM
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Default Re: car steers to the right and shakes during hard acceleration

Why are you launching at 7k J/w and steering during that time was probably torque steer and check the rubber in your motor mounts to see if it is worn out or if any other part of the mounts might be broke
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Old Jul 22, 2010 | 08:18 PM
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Default Re: car steers to the right and shakes during hard acceleration

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Why are you launching at 7k J/w and steering during that time was probably torque steer and check the rubber in your motor mounts to see if it is worn out or if any other part of the mounts might be broke
I should stated it more clearly, I didnt launch at 7k I floored from 0 to 7k rpm.

also there was a small bump that I had to go over, although I dont think it has anything to do with the steer or vibration or maybe.
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Old Jul 23, 2010 | 06:17 PM
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Default Re: car steers to the right and shakes during hard acceleration

I had a similar problem with my 92 eg. It turned out to be my front tires where bad. After I bought new tires it solved my shaking problem. Hope that helps out!!
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Old Jul 23, 2010 | 08:02 PM
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also check tire pressure
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Old Jul 23, 2010 | 08:21 PM
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/\/\/\/\ check all the above.. i had similar problem till i got new tires, balance and alignment... all's good now. gl
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Old Aug 13, 2010 | 06:22 PM
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Default Re: car steers to the right and shakes during hard acceleration

on my lsvtec setup im running a 90-93 ls block and running a 99-00 civic si axle (pass) and I was told its different and I should be using a 90-93 ls axle.

Is this true?

Any way im getting new tires and swapping out another axle tomorrow to see if it does anything.
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Old Aug 14, 2010 | 05:01 AM
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do you have LSD on your tranny? if not I'd suggest it for torque steer
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Old Nov 9, 2010 | 05:46 PM
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Default Re: car steers to the right and shakes during hard acceleration

Found the problem hope this helps with other hondatech member having similar issue.

I finally man up and took the car to a local race shop that do Honda, after inspecting the car while it was on the lift, located bad front drive wheel bearing, bad balljoints, and my axle popping out issue was a bad gearbox inside my tranny where the axle slides it, had a lot of play inside of it.

Replaced everything new and put back autozone axle and took it for a drive and *BOOM* feels like a brand new car even feel like it has more power.

Couldn't tell ya how happy that felt.

Good luck.
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Old Nov 9, 2010 | 06:14 PM
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Default Re: car steers to the right and shakes during hard acceleration (solved)

Front end fixes can really make a million dollar difference in how the car drives. Thanks for the info.
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