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Originally Posted by JoelK
I've noticed that the car pulls toward the direction of a slope. i.e. if the road slopes off to the right but goes straight, the car will pull to the right. Before the turbo install, the car was rock stable in every way.
I do intend to get an alignment (that was my original plan to ask when I initially signed up -- Where to go?), but this seemed like a potentially dangerous situation that needed to be addressed immediately.
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Well, it depends on how hard it's pulling. If the road is sloped off to the side, a car will naturally steer a little bit towards the lower side. Since most roads are sloped a little to the right, alignment shops usually put a caster split in between the LF and RF, so the RF will have around 0.2 or 0.3 degrees more positive caster than the LF does. This creates a slight steering force to counteract the road slope, and makes the car feel neutral on most roads. It could be that your front wheels simply have symmetrical caster now, which isn't anything dangerous. Now, if you're going straight, let go of the steering wheel and the car jerks itself into a hard right turn, that's a different story...
