Topic: Corner scales
If you have a set to rent/lend and are in the Seattle area let me know. Thanks.
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If you have a set to rent/lend and are in the Seattle area let me know. Thanks.
Cripes are Lemons people corner weighing their cars now? We didn't even do an alignment this time.
Alignment? What's that? Where you beat your suspension back into place with a hammer?
What am I, a caveman?
A hammer and a String!!
I had my car aligned before a race once. Then it dropped halfway off the trailer before said race. I haven't bothered even checking it since then...
I used to corner balance my cars before we moved to Class C. Now I no longer care. I still align them so the tires will last longer because tires cost money.
We want to corner weight the 1947 Plymouth honestly for entertainment. Will we use the data...sure. Is that the real concern with a pre-war design, running modern everything else, not a chance.
When we built our first car ('80 RX-7), it was scary as f*&$ to drive; the rear end was always trying to come around on you. We knuckled under and bought a set of scales; turned out the LF corner was carrying a pretty high percentage of curb weight; the car was nowhere near what could be considered "balanced". We ended up adding about 120+ lbs of weight to the passenger side where the seat would be, and the RR corner, to balance the car out. It made a pretty substantial difference.
Over time, we trimmed more weight from other areas of the car (such as relocating the battery from LF corner to the right side behind the main hoop), which allowed us to remove some of the "reward weight".
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