[Tom Howland]

I brought the car home yesterday at 3:30 pm thinking about the rain. It was still cool enough, so no over heating. Very worthwhile day. The corner weights are LF 601, RF 588, LR 868, RR 775. This was with a 1/2 tank of gas. 185 lb. of free weights in the driver seat. It shows the right side lighter than the left. A good argument to leave the motor offset to the right. It also shows 1643 lb in the rear. A 42% front and 58% rear bias. Off the top of my head I would like to see 48% front 52% rear?? What are some opinions here? Maybe more weight in the rear gives better traction. The motor is set back quite a bit so there is room to move it forward. I do need to find out weight difference of the old motor/trans to the new.
A lot of other discovery surfaced. This is taken from Kevin’s report.

“Front springs and shock caps are interfering and cutting into lower control arms. Need to change ends on shocks at LCA attachment points. Outer Hiem joints have play on tie rod assemblies and rack mount point is too high causing a bumpsteer problem and also an issue with Ackerman angle.”

Other items he didn’t write down because they aren’t safety items. He also gave me measurements for how level the frame is and how level the body is. Nether are, so that gives me something to do.
The wheel balancing feels great. I was not able to do any freeway driving, so that will have to wait. A one oz and a two oz weight patch were put in one rear tire. The other rear got a one oz patch inside. He recommends 32 psi in front and 28 psi in the rear. Coming over Hwy 152 the tires felt really good.