AM I off center??? Please take this test at home
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AM I off center??? Please take this test at home
I ran across a simple observation in my crossfire while trying to align it in the garage. The effort I was going thru, was to get the car in the same - correct spot each time so that it is positioned over the spot the lift hits the frame just right.
As I rolled in and out of the garage I noticed something that I have also found in my 2004 Durango and 2009 1500 Ram I just got. ---- The steering wheel is not in front of me----.
???? What does that mean??? Whell if I sit in the seat correctly and then shut my eyes and then reach forward to touch the steering wheel on a line that is straight in front of my nose with either hand, the hand is about 2" to the right of the center of the steering wheel AND speedometer.
Sit in your car, get comfy, be centered in the seat and then shut your eyes and take one and either hand from your nose forward to what you think is the center line of your head and body. When you touch the steering wheel, open your eyes and note its position with the imaginary centerline going thru the speedo and steering wheel. Sorta like one of DOCs sobriety tests but in the car!
Id be interested to hear of your findings. I have never noticed this till I was concentrating on the positioning of my car in the garage. My other cars are the same, off set by about 2" to the right.?
I actually cant move closer to the door to get my sight line to match up with the center line of the steering wheel and the speedo. This is amazing to me and sort of an oddity.
My crossfire seat is lowered but the seat is bolted thru the same holes in the frame of the car so that aint it. The other vehicles have had no seat modifications at all FYI. Odd
WEEKEND Woody
As I rolled in and out of the garage I noticed something that I have also found in my 2004 Durango and 2009 1500 Ram I just got. ---- The steering wheel is not in front of me----.
???? What does that mean??? Whell if I sit in the seat correctly and then shut my eyes and then reach forward to touch the steering wheel on a line that is straight in front of my nose with either hand, the hand is about 2" to the right of the center of the steering wheel AND speedometer.
Sit in your car, get comfy, be centered in the seat and then shut your eyes and take one and either hand from your nose forward to what you think is the center line of your head and body. When you touch the steering wheel, open your eyes and note its position with the imaginary centerline going thru the speedo and steering wheel. Sorta like one of DOCs sobriety tests but in the car!
Id be interested to hear of your findings. I have never noticed this till I was concentrating on the positioning of my car in the garage. My other cars are the same, off set by about 2" to the right.?
I actually cant move closer to the door to get my sight line to match up with the center line of the steering wheel and the speedo. This is amazing to me and sort of an oddity.
My crossfire seat is lowered but the seat is bolted thru the same holes in the frame of the car so that aint it. The other vehicles have had no seat modifications at all FYI. Odd
WEEKEND Woody
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Re: AM I off center??? Please take this test at home
First off I must say that I checked my calendar before I did this (Woody and his April 1st antics)
Ran a string from the speedo and the center of the roll over bar and it disected the middle of the steering wheel.
Yes Mr Woody, you are off center. But we all kinda figured that out a while back!
Ran a string from the speedo and the center of the roll over bar and it disected the middle of the steering wheel.
Yes Mr Woody, you are off center. But we all kinda figured that out a while back!
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Re: AM I off center??? Please take this test at home
TIght1, were you sitting in the car to see the string pass thru your center??? How did it go to the seat while youe at it??? Woody
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Re: AM I off center??? Please take this test at home
With all the autocrossing you do and the kind of power you put down, maybe you've torqued your seat out of whack with the G's your throwing. LOL OR , maybe you need to see a chiropractor. 
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Re: AM I off center??? Please take this test at home
it's a 60's thing woody...you know we all use to lean to the right, with our left hand on top of the wheel, the right sitting on the consol, or if lucky, your favorite girl...engineers, have never corrected it....lol
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