Do any of you guys know a place that offers corner weighting in and around the GTA? I've looked and asked around, but no one knows of a place. There has to be a place around here that has scales...

 

ive wondered the same.
try JRP in Missi..
those guys are pretty well known in the GTA, they might have corner weight scales.

 

JRP's a parts shop. I don't really intend on buying the scales, unless the price is right, but I've heard they're pretty expensive.

 

 

I got mine done last year at SCC racing. Good shop, good guys!

Check them out here:http://www.cscracing.com

 

Thanks

 

**EDIT** Duh, I just re-read Baby NSX's post and realized he too was pointing you to CSC Racing...anyway, you can do it yourself at CSC to save some money, see my original post below

CSC Racing in Newmarket has corner weighting scales. You can rent them for about $20/hour if you go in at night, but you have to do the work yourself. There's an article on how to do it yourself on the HADA Motorsport Club website in the 'Tech Corner', second article down from the top. Check it out at http://www.hadamotorsport.com

If you don't want to do the corner weighting yourself then Mantis Racing in Oakville will do it for you, though I'd expect to pay at least $200.


[Modified by Maxi, 11:41 AM 3/27/2002]

 

And it is easy to do, once you have the scales!

 

Thanks for the info. I think I'll check out CSC in the upcoming weeks.

 

What is the purpose of corner wheighting??

 

If your car has coilovers you can adjust the perch height of each corner such that the weight distribution is even. The perfect balance has each corner taking on the correct loading corresponding the cars center of gravity.

Because you can adjust the right height at each corner you can also adjust the static loading on each corner "independently".

For example: say you find that the scales tell you that the right front corner is taking to much load, you can simply lower that corner a tad and distribute that load to the other corners.

The benefit of this exercise is that you will be able to extract the most out of your tires and the load transfers during cornering, breaking, and accelerating will be more consistent left to right and back to front.

I Hope that shed some light.

 

Is the driver's weight ever taken into consideration- especially that he's sitting off center to the left? Ever corner weigh with the driver inside?

 

I know there's a place out on Winston Churchill...I cant think of the name right now, but they also have a dyno....if it comes to be I will get back to this...but just another question...who's the CW R with the blue graphics up the side....I saw him the other day at dixie and dundas tims...just curious..or is it really an R...it may just be a sticker as he's already got more than enough on his car already

 

Absolutely! Corner balancing should be done with the car prepared as it would be on the track or typical drive. 1/2 tank of fuel, driver in the car, spare removed, etc.

 

Hype Type- you go to Pocock by any chance?

BabyNSX- thanks

 

I was taking night school there...but I just dropped out.

Why do you ask??