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Old Jan 29, 2018 | 04:59 AM
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I've got a 1.0 Ecoboost Fiesta as my DD, which I've had chipped to 155hp.

Possibly predictably, it's a bit torque steery now; do any of the experts know if there's anything I can do to improve it? I read that changing the toe angle might help, but I've seen conflicting reports about whether it should be toe in or out, and nothing about how much.

Any advice gratefully accepted...

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Old Jan 29, 2018 | 07:29 AM
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Unchip it?
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Old Jan 29, 2018 | 07:53 AM
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Hard bush upgrade`or bigger steering wheel
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Old Jan 29, 2018 | 10:17 AM
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decent tyres on it?

tbh I think it's torque steer or have the power cut (with a claim of no torque steer) with any reasonable amount of power through the front wheels

roads are slippy atm as well
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Old Jan 29, 2018 | 11:56 AM
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Short of installing a Revoknuckle set up (or just buying the Focus with it), nothing.
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Old Jan 30, 2018 | 01:11 AM
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Never mind, it's not catastrophic- rather put up with it than lose 30 horses.

Cheers anyway....
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Old Jan 31, 2018 | 12:03 PM
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Change the wheel offset.
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Old Feb 2, 2018 | 06:40 AM
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Do Fords still run funny low-offsets?

Might be worth going a bit more Honda on it. Centre-point FTW!
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Old Feb 2, 2018 | 11:11 AM
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Think they're positive 47.5
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Old Feb 3, 2018 | 06:29 AM
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Grippier tyres should help along with some alignment tweaks, if that doesn't work then Fiesta ST suspension bits would help massively, but at that point you're better off just getting a Fiesta ST instead.
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