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The angle of the camera to the car matters a lot, as does the depth at which the tire sits inside the wheel well. And if the wheels are turned a little....well.

I doubt any VS wheel placement is very much different from any other.

But the fix is pretty straightforward: Buy a half dozen sets of caster shims and two sets of longer beam bolts. Unbolt your steering shaft at the rag joint. Unbolt your beam. Put a set of shims on the top beam and three on the bottom, bolt it up and see how it looks. Repeat with different shim sets until it's good. Always make sure the bottom beam sticks out a little more than the top.

When the beam is situated right and the wheels are centered in the holes, measure the gap (if any) where your steering shaft meats the steering box. You're probably going to have to either adjust your column down to meet it (there's usually like an inch of wiggle room) or  weld in an extension there. Figure that out now.

Then put it all back the way it was and take the shim sets to a machine shop. Tell them you want four slugs of mild steel done up exactly like the stacks-o-shims you have in your hands. Give them a hundred bucks and a cheap sixer. Something like that. Maybe a scosh more if you need them to make something to extend your steering shaft.

Wait.

When they are done, pick up your parts.

Weld the extensions to the beam.

Bolt your beam back in using your long bolts. (Or weld it! Strength!)

Rejoice in the fact that you have just spent time and treasure fixing something that not one person in a thousand would ever have noticed.

Be The Madness! 

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