Live from M-Workz : Suspension Tuning!!!
09-17-2007, 09:39 AM
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Live from M-Workz : Suspension Tuning!!!
Posting live from M-Workz in Gardena...
Yeah..so after reading reviews from Cheston (chebosto) and Andy (andy@performance) about Steve Mitchell and his company M-Workz, I made an appt to get my G35 re-aligned and corner balanced.
So here I am today, 95 miles later, hanging out at M-Workz. They have wireless internet to help the time past by.
Steve said it'll take about 4 hrs or so to get everything done. Looking to get about -1.5 degree of camber both front and rear since the car will mostly be a street car. After the corner balancing, I swill finally know how much my car weighs.
Given a stock G35 weighs in at 3435, I'd imagine my car will tip the scale at over 3600 lbs without driver.
Anyways...i'll post a further review when everything is done.
Yeah..so after reading reviews from Cheston (chebosto) and Andy (andy@performance) about Steve Mitchell and his company M-Workz, I made an appt to get my G35 re-aligned and corner balanced.
So here I am today, 95 miles later, hanging out at M-Workz. They have wireless internet to help the time past by.
Steve said it'll take about 4 hrs or so to get everything done. Looking to get about -1.5 degree of camber both front and rear since the car will mostly be a street car. After the corner balancing, I swill finally know how much my car weighs.
Given a stock G35 weighs in at 3435, I'd imagine my car will tip the scale at over 3600 lbs without driver.
Anyways...i'll post a further review when everything is done.
09-17-2007, 10:14 AM
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damn...car comes in at 3860 lbs with 160 lb driver and about 16 gallons of gas. full interior with audio set-up in trunk
1 rWHP for every lb of car. that's a bad ratio....
hmmm...should i try to lose weight or just build my engine
decisions decisions....
1 rWHP for every lb of car. that's a bad ratio....
hmmm...should i try to lose weight or just build my engine
decisions decisions....
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09-17-2007, 11:21 AM
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it's $300 for alignment and corner balancing. not sure how much just for corner balancing.
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09-17-2007, 12:31 PM
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damn...car comes in at 3860 lbs with 160 lb driver and about 16 gallons of gas. full interior with audio set-up in trunk
1 rWHP for every lb of car. that's a bad ratio....
hmmm...should i try to lose weight or just build my engine
decisions decisions....
1 rWHP for every lb of car. that's a bad ratio....
hmmm...should i try to lose weight or just build my engine
decisions decisions....
09-17-2007, 01:28 PM
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sorry...must have misplaced a zero somewhere 
power:weight = 1:10
that makes more sense
HKS RS. With my aggressive offset and tires....we're gonna run -2.3 camber all the way around (should not have bought these expensive a$$ michelin's)
what's cool is that all the adjustments are done manually. Those use to the Hunter alignment machines and computer generated alignments may be in for a surprise.
taking it back old school:
power:weight = 1:10
that makes more sense
HKS RS. With my aggressive offset and tires....we're gonna run -2.3 camber all the way around (should not have bought these expensive a$$ michelin's)
what's cool is that all the adjustments are done manually. Those use to the Hunter alignment machines and computer generated alignments may be in for a surprise.
taking it back old school:
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09-17-2007, 09:02 PM
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final numbers:
weight distribution front to rear: 53/47
alignment to whatever spec you want: $80
corner balancing: $220
taking an offramp at 50 mph vs 35 mph: priceless
weight distribution front to rear: 53/47
alignment to whatever spec you want: $80
corner balancing: $220
taking an offramp at 50 mph vs 35 mph: priceless
