Originally Posted By Jacob Pitt
No pinion snubber.
The car requires steering input all the way down the track. It felt this way when we first bought the car many years ago where it would sway back and fourth requiring a lot of steering input. I was able to eliminate the problem when I put it on a alignment rack and saw it had negative caster in the frontend. It now has a good amount of caster but has started swaying again but is more controllable this time around. My mom is 65 years old and races for the fun of it. The car run 6.80-90's with a pump gas small block in it and she doesn't feel very comfortable in the car with it moving around so much.
I think this steering input is PART of the problem. Some cars with slicks, especially smaller ones, tend to sashay a bit going down the track. If you are trying to correct every little wiggle with steering input, you are simply compounding the issue and soon the sashay will be bad. I run into this often with guys who are used to drag radials and bolt on bias tires for a race at a bad track. The radials drive SO good, that on slicks they tend to try and control the car TOO much. Once I tell them to just keep the wheel straight and let the car just go down the track...the ill handling usually goes away