CORRECTING THE PROBLEM

You’ll want as little bump steer as you can get, but getting zero is no easy feat. To correct it, you’re going to need to shift either raise the rack or lower the rack-end pivot point of your steering arm versus the hub itself. Typically, as mentioned earlier, bump steer is caused by lowering your suspension, and this, in turn, means that the steering arm is shifting in a different arc to your lower arm, causing it to pull or push on your hub, changing your toe. In a race car, running a rod end as your outer rack end will allow you to use shims to adjust the tie-rod height. These shims are readily available from speedway shops in New Zealand. For road-going cars, many companies offer off-theshelf extended tie rods and roll-centre adjusters to help correct the issue. The other solution, and one that’s often free, is simply raising your ride height, then again do you really want to do that?