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A few months back the speedo cable snapped, I lost all power steering and the speedo stoped working, and the car felt pretty weird on turns,all over the place, very unpredictable, so I got it replaced and it was all fine again untill the other day.

While drifting, I felt something snap mid turn, the car started feeling much like that time, the same weirdness, but the speedo is working perfectly and also is the power steering, Ive checked everything I can think of, nothing seems wrong.

Took it to my mechanic, and he cant find anything wrong with it either

Any ideas as to what can possibly be causing this,

P.S. Hicas has been removed by the way, and I have a Nardi on, always have.

Any help would be appeciated guys.

Cheers

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Is it the front or back? Whats it doing? Is the back steering itself under acceleration and trying to change direction when you go over ripples in the road. Is anything knocking? Does it look like all the wheels are sitting in the right spot?

Are you running cheap shit camber arms/ball joints that could have been flogged out?

It could be a stuffed castor rod, could be a stuffed rear bush or flogged our rear tie rod. It could be a lot of other things too.

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i took it to the mechanic and he didnt find anything wrong under the car, he would have check bushes and arms and the like.

it kind of feel like the back of the car is lifting up and wanting to go on a different direction when turning. Nothing is knocking thou.

what do you mean by the wheels sitting in the right spot?

i took the hicas computer off, to see if it was a hicas related issue, and i lost ps but didnt fix the problem.

Can the wheels steer themselves after removing the hicas? is that even possible? i might put a pic up to show the set up

at the back but im pretty sure its been locked.

Cheers

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Is the hicas locked with a bar or is it just a shimmed rack? If you felt something snap it would be fairly obvious when looking from underneath. I'd rule out a bent tie rod as thats a fairly obvious one to look at.

If it's a rubber bush it will gradually get worse over time rather than just let go so i'd rule that out, but at the same time it will be flogging out other components like ball joints and tie rods

As it suddenly started i'd check that the tie rods in the hicas rack haven't worked loose or pulled out of the hicas rack, Check that the studs in the subframe are all intact, check that the ball joints are ok, things like that.

Other than that, there's not much more i can offer.

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