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I seem to be finding all of the standard Elige weaknesses with this car I bought. First the rear toe links, now a rapidly-worsening front end clunk.
When I first got the car (~1000 miles ago, 34k on the clock), I noticed just the slightest bit of clunking through the steering wheel. Rocking the car by the wheels hard didn't cause any clunking, but driving along I could feel clicking/tiny clunking through the steering wheel that slowly got worse.
Fast forward to a week ago, when I bought a bunch of new parts -- coilovers, rear toe links, V2Arms, new tie rod ends, and swaybar. I put them all on, and the clunk didn't change. By this point the clunk was bad enough that I could grab hard on the wheel and rock side to side and get a clunk with every change in direction. Pulling either front wheel off and checking it revealed a sound coming from the center of the car, not in either wheel well.
Fast forward to yesterday, when I had a track day, and the clunk was a fair bit worse by the end of the day. I can now, with the car stationary, just turn the steering wheel side to side and get a clunk. Same symptoms as before -- either wheel off, nothing is loose or clunks (and I went through every bolt in the front corners while I was doing the work last week).
My money was on steering rack from day 1, but after reading a ton of threads about how it seems to be a weak point, that seems to confirm my suspicions.
Anything else that it could really possibly be?
I was planning on upgrading to one of the quicker ratio racks (that give the bump steer advantage too) as I built the car, but it seems like that might be moving up in the schedule.
When I first got the car (~1000 miles ago, 34k on the clock), I noticed just the slightest bit of clunking through the steering wheel. Rocking the car by the wheels hard didn't cause any clunking, but driving along I could feel clicking/tiny clunking through the steering wheel that slowly got worse.
Fast forward to a week ago, when I bought a bunch of new parts -- coilovers, rear toe links, V2Arms, new tie rod ends, and swaybar. I put them all on, and the clunk didn't change. By this point the clunk was bad enough that I could grab hard on the wheel and rock side to side and get a clunk with every change in direction. Pulling either front wheel off and checking it revealed a sound coming from the center of the car, not in either wheel well.
Fast forward to yesterday, when I had a track day, and the clunk was a fair bit worse by the end of the day. I can now, with the car stationary, just turn the steering wheel side to side and get a clunk. Same symptoms as before -- either wheel off, nothing is loose or clunks (and I went through every bolt in the front corners while I was doing the work last week).
My money was on steering rack from day 1, but after reading a ton of threads about how it seems to be a weak point, that seems to confirm my suspicions.
Anything else that it could really possibly be?
I was planning on upgrading to one of the quicker ratio racks (that give the bump steer advantage too) as I built the car, but it seems like that might be moving up in the schedule.