Thread: steering issues

So this week my car started having steering issues. The car is controllable but something is not right.

When I accelerate the car pulls left, and when I decelerate the car pulls to the right. Under mild throttle the car only pulls a little to the left, under heavy throttle the car wants to fly over to the other lane by 4k rpm and only gets worse as i get higher up in the rpm range. The higher rpm i start my deceleration the harder it pulls to the right. I have to counter steer to get the car to drive straight (the max i have to countersteer is about 50* under acceleration and about 20* when deaccelerting). When I push in the clutch and glide the car pulls a little to the right (i think this is from the alignment being slightly off, the car has always done that).

There are no weird noises beside a small single "ding" coming from the rack when it engages from center to a side.

A little backround on the car....
Its a b14 with about 5k miles on it since I rebuilt it. It has a n/a VE with a light flywheel and sr16 transmission. The suspension mods are (everything was brand new when I installed them)
D2 coil overs (the cars a little lower then it should be)
Nissan controll arms with the large ES bushing installed
Nissan Ball joints
Nissan outer tie rods
Nissan sway bar ends with bushings
New tires
Front and Rear strut tower bars
Controll arm brace
New duralast axles
Nissan hubs and wheel bearings
OEM rack with PS delete

Here is what ive done so far to try and fix it

Tightened everything suspension/steering wise with a breaker bar (passanger side controll arm cover plate was very loose as well as passanger side rack mount)
Tightened motor mounts and x-member
Checked tire PSI
Rotated Tires
Checked all boots/rubber
Checked everything for noticible play/movement
Checked everything for noticible bends
Tightened axle nuts

The car did get more responsive and easier to handle after tightening the passanger controll arm and rack but the crazy torque steer is still there. This is by no means normal torque steer.

Any ideas guys?

Free if you can fix my issue

having the car too low will cause this,but it seems like yours is extreme. I run my NX too low too and it makes me keep 2 hands on the wheel to pass in VVL.
However. Any worn LCA bushings or balljoints/Tierods will aggravate this severely from my experience.
It seems the lower you go,the more critical a good alignment is also.
Just throwing that out there.
I had a car with ablown strut that was like that too before. I was surprised how bad it impacted torque steer.

I've had these same problems. Check you're ball joints. They have always been my issue. Just last weekend I had to fix this problem. I did the traditional diagnosis of rocking the tire up\down, and side\side to see what was loose. That didnt show my ball joint issue though. It didn't show my last bad ball joint, and this time the nut had backed off on both of them. I didn't notice that until I started taking stuff apart. I tightened everything up, and no more steering issues.

Limited slip worn out? Mine is going away and will pull to one side,then pull back as the lsd tries to work.You end up steering a lot just to keep it pointed straight as the lsd sort of tries to do its job.Sounds like you may have a "tolerance buildup" of different worn bits,although your list of parts seem to suggest that wouldn't be the case.

it may be a lsd, i did a little burn out the other day and only had 1 tire mark

i really dont think its worm parts because they only have 5k miles on them. the only part that is old are the inner tie rods and rack.

i took the car to get an alignment today. The issue is fixed.

I also did a nice burn out and the lsd left two nice marks

So it was just toe causing the issue?

yes, my camber and caster were the same as my last alignment.

I just went through troubleshooting a similar problem. As soon as I let off the gas the sterring wheel would move slightly to the right. After checking what I thought was everything I found the RH wheel bearing was bad. The wheel would lean in against the brake pad causing a pull, when on the gas I could not feel the pull due to the torque of the engine. When I jacked the RH of the car I could rock the wheel/tire up and down due to the loose wheel bearing. Due to the loud exhaust I never heard the bearing which is usually the clue it is going bad. -Tom