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Personally, I don't like the way high scrub radius cars steer. I have never proven conclusively that lap times for low scrub cars are better than cars with a high scrub radius. Nobody designs a modern car from scratch with a high scrub radius (maybe dirt cars). It's usually the outcome of someone installing wider wheels with stock backspacing. It's not easy to redesign the front control arms. If racing, some classes don't allow different control arms. Moderate scrub is usually not an issue driving on a smooth track with limited steering input.

It's a bigger issue with street cars. In extreme cases the tires tuck into the fenders front and back at lock. Cars like that feel like they are "hunting" around from road irregularities. Probably not too noticeable on very smooth roads.

We built custom longer front upper control arms that are fully adjustable. I designed the arms around the stock ball joints. The new arms allow for increased caster and easy camber adjustment. We offset the lower ball joint forward enough so with increased caster the spindle is in about the stock (per original to this car) location. We modified the stock front lower arms to be longer and offset the ball joint. The modified front suspension and rear suspension (rear camber still needs work) were installed and rough aligned prior to installing the flares. We were able to streamline the shape of the front flares a bit because we don't have excessive front to back tire swing caused by high scrub. We did not alter the suspension mounting points.

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