how many of you buy fully adjustable coilovers and dont corner balance them? reason being because i am reading the latest issue of modified and there is a complete section on it. any of you that go roadracing, etc. adjust each corner differently, do you notice a significant difference?

 

Corner balancing is the while point of getting a ride height adjustable suspension.

Not corner balancing after getting a coil over kit is a waste of a potentially great setup. Like getting really good set of tires and running them with 50 psi of pressure...

 

Rather than artificially adjusting ride height why not first exactly balance the body weight with the designated driver in place.

Necessary to weigh the weight on each wheel.

Oem designs for a 155 pound driver, so excess will have to be trimmed away.

 

Corner balancing along with Tire temperature reading for camber adjustments are the best....atleast that's the route I go....

 

yea but its supposed to be cross balanced. each weighing the same.
heres an example

lf = 560 rf = 600


lr = 440 rr = 460

however after being ballnced they should be the same when crossed, as is the left front and right rear should weigh the same as the right front and the left rear


lf = 565 * * rf = 595 = 1030
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lr = 435 * * rr = 4765 = 1030

 

The problem is correcting for weight change as fuel is consummed and the rear center of gravity as the fuel moves left and right.

Race cars adjust rear sway bar stiffness as fuel is consummed.

One can get carried away too as the incremental gains are small.

 

You remind me of the old F1 that used to run 300-350 liters of fuel for the races. They had an adjustable CG. Moving weight around the inside of the car on sliders.