well i borrowed a set of corner weight scales to set my car up. my question is should i set the front/rear weight as close to 50/50 as possible or what should i shoot for.

 

Haha if you tried to get your car to 50/50 by the end of the day the front of your coilovers would be maxxed out and the rears would be slammed!

Put something of equal weight to you in the drivers seat, and leave the fuel tank filled with the amount of gas you normally race with.

The goal is to have left and right sides as close as possible for the front and rear. Then mark your weight balance down and try to improve it by taking stuff out of the front and relocating whatever you can't remove. (battery)

make sure all scales are 100% level (this should be obvious) otherwise you will be doing more bad then good!

 

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GRM has a great article to get started.

http://www.grmotorsports.com/n...s.php


Dave

 

I used that article and this one when I did mine: http://www.hadamotorsport.com/...ights/

I was lucky and got my cross-weights to within 2lbs of each other after the first adjustment!

 

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The goal is to have left and right sides as close as possible for the front and rear. Then mark your weight balance down and try to improve it by taking stuff out of the front and relocating whatever you can't remove. (battery)

make sure all scales are 100% level (this should be obvious) otherwise you will be doing more bad then good!

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Actually you cannot move weight left to right or front to rear by adjusting ride heights.

The idea of corner weighting is to get the cross weight percentages close to each other.

Rememeber the only way to add or loose left or right side weight is to phyiscally move the weight. Likewise for the front and rear weights.

 

[QUOTE=SequenceGarage]Haha if you tried to get your car to 50/50 by the end of the day the front of your coilovers would be maxxed out and the rears would be slammed!

Put something of equal weight to you in the drivers seat, and leave the fuel tank filled with the amount of gas you normally race with.

The goal is to have left and right sides as close as possible for the front and rear. Then mark your weight balance down and try to improve it by taking stuff out of the front and relocating whatever you can't remove. (battery)

make sure all scales are 100% level (this should be obvious) otherwise you will be doing more bad then good!
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Yeah im PERFECTLY and FULLY aware that im not going to get my f/f civic 50/50 f/r. Thats why my question stated what i should shoot for. And of course i plan on placing my body weight of dead weights in the driver seat.

Thanks for all the links and suggestions.



Modified by roma's GSReg6 at 8:28 PM 10/23/2006

 

As mentioned, corner weighting is done to equalize the cross weights. Front/rear and left/right biases cannot be changed without physically moving weight around in the car. Besides, you don't want anywhere near 50/50 F:R in an FF car, because it will handle like total ****. For Civics, 62/38 or 63/37 is typical.

Don't forget to reset your alignment after corner weighting.

 

And if you are actually attempting to tune your suspension and don't have adjustable end links on your anti sway bars when you bolt them back up you are basically wasting your time. Without adjustable end links the torque created at the anti sway bar will be different from side to side.