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I forgot to mention this whole morning.
Last night I was working on the car, and I noticed that I pretty much ran out of tie rod and rod end adjustment on my tie rod assembly on the passenger side front and still was not able to bring the toe out into an acceptable range, so then I remembered someone mentioning that the racks are actually longer on one side in this thread.
I'm pretty sure whoever said that is correct, because I then did a little testing.
I unhooked the steering column coupler from the rack and moved the rack over a little bit to try and "center" it a little more, but then I got a lot more steering wheel turn to one side than the other. I got like 1.75 turns to the left I think, and then only like 1 turn to the right.
So then I was like "well, this isn't right", so I unhooked the steering coupler from the rack again, and I moved it back, but moved it over a few teeth. Now I got a lot more angle on the passenger side than the driver's side front, but the steering wheel was about even in either directions as far as center to lock goes.
Then it hits me, for some reason, the passenger side tie rod isn't even hitting the steering stop, which is set all the way in just like the driver's side front, and the wheel is hitting the tie rod end, which is what's stopping the party.
So then I moved the steering coupler over a couple of teeth back the other way, and adjusted the steering stopper on the passenger's side FLCA, and now I get about the same angle on both sides, and I get 1.5 turns in either direction from center to lock.
Weird thing too that I noticed last night was that, my passenger's side FLCA is set to about the same length as the driver's side FLCA, but the bolt is slightly pointed towards the brake rotor, and I had a lot more brake rotor clearance between the rotor and the FLCA.
So I think the rack is indeed longer on one side than the other, and I think my chassis is tweaked up front.
Oh well, I barely have enough tie rods to make it work right now, and at this point, as long as it works, I'm happy.
Just gotta anti-seize and put the passenger side coilover back together, then torque all the nuts/bolts to spec, and the passenger side is done.
Gotta dremel more of the driver's side FLCA, and then tighten the 2 bolts on the steering coupler, and I can move on to the rears.
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