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P10 corner balancing (kinda long)


JustinP10
02-04-2002, 07:58 PM
Well guys (and gals) I just had the opportunity to get my car on a set of cornerweighting scales. It was off a little bit when i first put them on the scales, as i just guessed on the coilover height (to what looks even).
Here's the results: 53.2% PF/DR - 46.7% DF/PR not too bad
With a couple adjustments: 51.6% PF/DR - 48.4% DF/PR
I didn't have a lot of time to adjust it perfect, but with the limited time i had I was able to get it quite a bit closer. Another G20 that was up there I was able to adjust to 51%/49%. As I already knew about how much to adjust to get the ratios to chance on my car, so his went a lot faster.
When I get a new set of ERS springs in, I'm going to go back and get my car to 50/50 front, 50/50 rear, and 50/50 DF/PR-PF/DR :-) Who knows how long that'll take though... Oh yeah, these percents usually are a couple lbs per tenth too, it takes a couple lbs per corner to change that corners percent. To give you an idea, my front avg was about 890lbs, my rear was around 540lbs per corner (with me in the driver seat). The car with under 1/2 tank of gas was at 62% front 38% rear weight distribution. :( Need to find more to take off the front of the car....
Oh yeah, one final note... due to time and manpower limitations (just myself doing all the weighing, measuring, etc..) we did not unbolt the swaybars, as i think you are supposed to for the best results. As these are just our streetcars (for now) we didn't see the need to do that this time, given the circumstances.

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