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Old May 1st 2007, 22:06
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Hi Chris

Proper race teams have pressure pads that they drive cars onto, these are out of the price rangfe of the average enthusiat. I imagine getting the car onto a scale would upset the suspension.

what I was thinking with my hydraulic apparatus was I would drive the car and place it on 4 pieces of thin but tough piece of plastic, i would then lift each wheel in turn until the plastic sheet could just be moved and make a note of the pressure reading at each corner. There is software available to calculate corner weight results.

To get your corner weights right you would need to adjust the rear torsion bars as well, that would be pain unless you had adjustable spring plates or unless you ran coil springs all round like andy1303 is doing.

Steve
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