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Originally Posted by DanEC
So if I understand correctly your initially scaling the car and then adjusting the coilovers to jack the spring loading from one corner of the car to the diagonal corner and vice versa with the other diagonal corners. Your not actually moving weight - just compensating with spring pre-load - in other words tansferring loading to or from - say the LR corner to the RF corner. I assume that when re-scaled the pre-loading is reflected in weight shown on the scales and you're shooting for approximately equal L to R. Am I understanding this or completely missing the whole point? I'm more of a straight-line guy than a roundy-round guy.
It seems like that could seriously screw up how the car sits on level ground if one got too carried away with this.
Go ahead - flame away.
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For any corner that you raise by increasing pre-load, you increase weight on that corner and the diagonal corner. Ex: raise the RR and you increase the weight carried on the RR and the weight carried on the LF. Likewise, the weight carried on the LR and RF would decrease by an equal amount. And yes, if you increase pre-load on only one corner, say the RR, you will increase ride height on the RR, LR, and RF, while decreasing ride height on the LF, thereby "screwing up how the car sits on level ground". But, say the LR/RF is carrying more weight than the RR/LF; you would decrease pre-load on the LR/RF springs and increase pre-load on the RR/LF. This will maintain ride height while while "balancing" your cross-weights.
You can not equalize L to R weight with spring pre-load adjustments.