Does Lowering ONE END of a CAR causes weight transfer towards this end?

[Chris Pronios]

Thanks for the reply Wayne.

However, the question was more basic than you took it to be.

> That's the real reason race cars all have adjustable springs.  You "corner
> weight" it with a scale under each wheel and adjust to distribute the
> weight optimally.

I am not concerned about corner weighting. Do not forget that usually in
corner weighting the TOTAL weight on both of the rear/front wheels remains
the same, does it not???

The diagonal total may change but the total car weight (sum on all 4 wheels)
and the per-axle weight (sum of 2 front and sum of 2 rear) does not change.
Am I wrong in this respect?

What I was asking was: If I lower the rear springs on their perches by
exactly equal ammounts and leave the from unchanged, does the rear wheels
receive some of the weight from the fronts (and hence, since the total
vehicle weight does not change, the front wheels receive less weight than
before?

> Another interesting weight distribution anomaly:  adding weight out beyond
> an axle, like an intercooler, heavier battery or winch not only adds
weight
> to that axle, but jacks it off the opposite one.  So 10lbs of intercooler
> might put 12lbs on the front wheels, and -2 on the rear (slightly
> exaggerated numbers there, for illustration.)

Yup. Putting weight in front of the front axle, we create a moment around
the "mounting points" of the front axle (whatever we take it to be) equal to
(Weight)*(Direct Distance of Weight to Mounting Points). This will tend to
rotate the car in the direction of the force and around the axle-mounting
point.

Chris