Okay then. A technical description on why cut knuckles make drifting easier...
The whole point of drifting is to get your car as sideways as possible. The stock s197 steering angle is very good for a stock mustang. But, not enough if you want to push the car to the edge without spinning.
Having more angle helps in a few ways. The most obvious way it helps is that the car can now drift with more angle before spinning. Also, if you pour more angle on while your drifting you can scrub speed and slow the car down without using the brakes.
To achieve the steering angle shown above the stock knuckles were shortened. What this does is creates a smaller arc that the tie rod has to push the knuckle around in. You can use your stock rack and tie rods and get quicker steering response and a tighter turning radius.
I made a quick illustration to show what Im talking about.
I appologize for the hasty way this has been thrown together. But, if you take a look at the drawing you can see that the shortened knuckle allows the same stock rack and tie rod to move the wheel farther than it could before.
Obviously you are limited by physical obstructions such as the control arms and fenderwells. but, in a perfect world you could almost give your car 90 degrees of steering angle.
The knuckles I just got for my car were made by level7tune down in Houston tx. Derrick Rogers of "bubba drift" El camino fame designed them and with the right wheel (17 or 18 x 8.5 -10 offset) I can get some really extreme offset. I could actually get more if I had a big brake kit. The limiting factor was my caliper hitting lol
Anyway, if this still isnt sufficient enough for a tech article then feel free to move it. I just wanted to spread the word that there is a cheap way of getting more angle out there right now.
Thanks