Corner balancing

[Andy]

Anyone know someone with scales? I will be in need of corner balancing the MR2 soon and paying Curry's 400 bucks to do it is a touch too much.

[Evan]

Bret at RP charged me $250 to install new tophats, align, and cornerbalance my pile.
tell him Evan referred you

[Andy]

Bret at RP charged me $250 to install new tophats, align, and cornerbalance my pile.

Wow. Is that with a discount or regular price? Are they still in ManAsses? Their website only list gasoline alley now.

[Evan]

just gasoline alley.

I dont think that was a discount price but it could have been since WWR has a good relationship with him.
Either way, I dont think he would charge over $150 for just a corner balance but only one way to find out.

[Andy]

Yep. Emailed him. 250 would be outrageiously good. I mentioned you. That could hurt or help. We'll see. Thanks.

[NTIman]

Dumb question: What the hell is corner balancing?

[Evan]

it means equalizing the cars cross-weights to be perfectly 50/50. you do this by adjusting the spring perches. This makes sure your car handles the same in right and left hand corners (all else being equal)
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in nascar terms, adding or subtracting wedge is purposefully changing the corner balance of the car to make it handle better in one direction or the other.

[NTIman]

Rock on. Thats what I thought, just different terminology.

As far as circle track stuff goes, we just call it scaling the car, I guess because its not exactly a balance Front/Rear and L/R.

Thanks for the explanation.

[NTIman]

BTW, its a total pain in the dick to do on a Sprint Cup car, keeping in mind the quarter panel heights, tire pressures, crossweight, and roof heights all have to be within specs.

I envy anyone who has to do that type of work on a pro race team.

And dirt track stuff, I have no idea how to go about any of that.

That'd be a good way to earn some extra money if you had the time and money to buy a set of scales and learn to do the job quick enough though.

[Maengelito]

just yell at rex and kaan at the next event and have them push you up on scales. then adjust accordingly

[Andy]

just yell at rex and kaan at the next event and have them push you up on scales. then adjust accordingly

I don't have enough camo hats to get them to do that.

[NTIman]

I can talk to the lead tech at work, he has a set of scales at his house, and if you were willing to throw in a little money (or possibly case of beer), and you didn't mind a trip to winchester on a weeknight, he might be willing to let you use them.

He's also a Toyota genius, and has a lot of experience with racecars.

[Andy]

I can talk to the lead tech at work, he has a set of scales at his house, and if you were willing to throw in a little money (or possibly case of beer), and you didn't mind a trip to winchester on a weeknight, he might be willing to let you use them.

He's also a Toyota genius, and has a lot of experience with racecars.

I don't mind the drive up to Winchester cause RP performance is at Summit but I don't know enough about this stuff to do it the first time on my own. It would be interesting to try it out though. I wonder if the Cobettos would loan the worker of the year club their scales for a weekend?

[white_2kgt]

I can talk to the lead tech at work, he has a set of scales at his house, and if you were willing to throw in a little money (or possibly case of beer), and you didn't mind a trip to winchester on a weeknight, he might be willing to let you use them.

He's also a Toyota genius, and has a lot of experience with racecars.

I don't mind the drive up to Winchester cause RP performance is at Summit but I don't know enough about this stuff to do it the first time on my own. It would be interesting to try it out though. I wonder if the Cobettos would loan the worker of the year club their scales for a weekend?

probably not since we almost destroyed them one weekend...

[Andy]

Maybe we're on their good side again? :dunno:

[Ole]

If you do this yourself, make sure to place enough weights in the driver's seat to equal your weight.

That was a WWR discount that Evan got, forget about mentioning his name, mention mine and bring a bottle of vodka, he may do it for $50.

[.RJ]

If you do this yourself, make sure to place enough weights in the driver's seat to equal your weight.

Also disconnect the swaybars and set tire pressures.

[Jewels]

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[Ole]

Bret at RP charged me $250 to install new tophats, align, and cornerbalance my pile.
tell him Evan referred you

You put 99 hats on your car????

[Andy]

That was a WWR discount that Evan got, forget about mentioning his name, mention mine and bring a bottle of vodka, he may do it for $50.

"Bret, Alan said you'd do anything for 50 bucks and bottle of vodka?" That could come off wrong.