Pulls to right on accelleration?? HELP!

[Guest]

I know this will (I hope) just be a bush or bushes but unable to find out which!
At constant speed the car drives fine and does not pull on braking.
However, when I accellerate it pulls (slightly) to the right and then obviously when you ease of then to the left.

PLEASE anyone that can point me in the right direction would be great!

Photos even better!

She's a late 1991 944 Turbo light mods etc... which inc Bilstein suspension all round.

Desperate Dave!

davidross@f2s.com

 

[Diver944]

That's an unusual one I've not heard of before.

Obvious things to check first are the alignment. When was a four wheel alignment last done, and has it been done since the Bilsteins were installed?

 

[Guest]

Thought no-one was gonna reply! he he...

Thanks, I was gonna take it to the only local 4 wheel alignment place and see as only have the 944 a month and not sure if its been done as you say after the shocks were fitted.
However, it also knocks from the suspension too, not sure if front or rear left or right for that matter, and when reversing off the drive with full lock...well just feels strange of the steering which led me to think bushes. The car is the straightest I could find, but still not ruling out accident damage. It just feels strange, spoze 1st thing as you say is get it checked for 4 wheel alignment. My only concern there is that garages have a tendency to say all kinds and not necessarily what the fault actually is. I.e. ooo eeer your shocks look knackered mate...blar blar...
At least I know its not a common thing...kinda hoped it was and that i'd get a reply saying change the so and so bushes etc...
Cheers anyhows and any other info would still be handy.
Will let you know how I get on with 4 wheel alignment..

Rossy.

 

[Helen Goff]

have you had the wheel alignment and balancing checked out. also check your tyre pressures.

 

[Guest]

Go on take the P, it was tyre presure, feel a fool. Or at least it seems ok now. Will no for sure once been on the motorway.
It have Boxster 16" wheels stuck 32 in the front and back...some as low as 20!!

What should I but in??

Rossy

 

[Fen]

32 is a bit low. Something like 36 all round probably for 16's

 

[Diver944]

ORIGINAL: Rossy

What should I put in??

Air!

Sorry, couldn't resist. If you have the 205 tyres up front and 225s at the rear like a standard S2 on 16" rims it should be 36 front and rear. Later S2s and Turbos had the official rear pressure recommendation raised to 44psi due to some high speed blowouts on German Autobahns, but people who try that over here tend to wear out the centre of the rear tyres and also get a twitchy rear end []

 

[Guest]

I know...its not 100% that thats sorted out my problem tho...Still need to get on the motorway as its hard to tell on "normal" roads...

I will have to look at when the next local meeting is nr Manchester too. Altho I have owned Porsche on and off for a few years now I have recently sold a rather quick and highly tuned Nissan 300ZX TT, Do not laugh. "Datson" I hear you say!
But £ for £ they are still a fantastic car and excelent value for money, sadly the down side is they do not hold their money hence buying another Porsche. I now own 2 and 1/2. Porsche 199 3.0 SC 1980 (With C mods i.e. C look) 944 Turbo and my business partner owns a 965 3.3 Turbo LHD but still enjoy knicking it off him when the weather permits! She is a beast!
So would be nice to get to a Meeting with all three, Me in the SC, Wife in the 944 (altho she's not actualy driven it yet!) and my business parter in the 965..

Thanks again for all your help! Its wierd, and I appologise to any BMW owners on here, but having owned 2 BMW and gone to meets, most are snobby and well do not have the right spirit! But having have VWs (and raced my camper on the Hockenhiem Germany no less) Porsche bods are well, like moved on VW bods. This I think because 98% are!!

Look forward to meeting all of you at some point, and I must get some pics up of the porka's.

Here's a link to my SC http://www.300zx.co.uk/forum/vbgarage.php?do=thumb&width=175&id=758

Not the best but the only one on line at the moment..

Toodle pip, time I went to bed I think...
11:49 PM!

 

[Fen]

Nothing wrong with the 300ZX in my eyes. That, the Supra TT and the Skyline are the only Japs I like*. *Anyone being sharp will know I have mentioned buying an MX5 this winter but that's just because they can be had for next to nothing and are bullet-proof so can be very cheap topless fun, and they aren't Jap to the core more a British sportscar built the Jap way.