car balance question

[jmarsey]

Good deal. You won't get a conventional car to be equal weight side to side without moving, relocating, adding, or removing weight. You can only get the balance as close as the given weight distribution of the car will allow.

Good luck and keep us posted on your progress. Looks like you have a pretty nice Kirkham there.

John

[dlampe]

I have an adjustable front swaybar. If I offset the splines on my swaybar, it would preload one side and take some weight off. Is that a smart way to equalize the weight or would that mess something else up?

[jmarsey]

Originally Posted by dlampe

I have an adjustable front swaybar. If I offset the splines on my swaybar, it would preload one side and take some weight off. Is that a smart way to equalize the weight or would that mess something else up?

No. Corner scaling, or any static setup, is done with the sway bars disconnected. When the chassis is set you want the sway bars adjusted dead neutral so there is no preload what so ever. Your anti roll bars should have no impact on static wheel weights. There is a method to this stuff that you should first understand. I would again recommend some reading material.

Order this book: “How To Make Your Car Handle” by Fred Puhn. It is pretty dated but covers the basic concepts to proper chassis setup in simple terms.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/091...162231?ie=UTF8

John

[dlampe]

I will order it today. Thanks for the recommendation. Thanks again for your advice.
Dean

[rdorman]

I second the swaybar recommendation.

Fred's book is a good one. I have read it several times. He also has a very good one on brakes (Carroll Smith says in one of his books there is no point for him to write a good book on brakes because Fred already did one!).

Once you read Fred's book, the definitive book on chassis is Milliken's "Race Car Vehicle Dynamics". http://www.millikenresearch.com/rcvd.html 900 pages of great bathroom reading

Dean, where is your battery?