Does Lowering ONE END of a CAR causes weight
transfertowards this end?
George Roffe
geo3@earthlink.net
Fri, 29 Nov 2002 23:25:06 -0600
Chris Pronios wrote:
> From http://www.grmotorsports.com/cornerweight.html :
>Last paragraph in section "STATIC WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION":
>"...The only way to change the static weight distribution percentages is to
>physically move weight around in the car. Jacking weight will not alter
>the left side or the rear percentages.".
>Is it wrong? I ma asking because my initial analysis came to exactly this
>result.
It is indeed wrong.
Someone at GRM apparently forgot to put down the banana before typing.
Last year at TWS we spent a fair amount of time corner weighting Grover's
ITS SE-R . I think we changed the corner weights by a considerable
amount. This was just by adjusting spring perch heights.
Makes you wonder about GRM.
George Roffe
Houston, TX
http://www.nissport.com