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OK, some luck with corner balancing and camber setting, but some questions remain. We are at 50!
This is the first time I've tried this. Yesterday, I couldn't get to 50. I got stuck at 51. So I went to the infinite data source and read maybe 8 or 9 different descriptions of corner balancing online. There are super detailed descriptions, fluffy no info descriptions, but only one had the info I needed: weight change per turn. It turns out I wasn't being aggressive enough in changing height. I also wasn't jouncing the suspension enough between changes. So, today I rotated right rear up 3 turns and left rear down 4 turns. Drove it through my engine break-in hill set and remeasured. One weird thing, overall weight today is 8kg less than yesterday. I did not use 8kg of gasoline driving around. It was colder today, maybe the scale cal is affected by temp. I measured 4 times yesterday and was always within 0.5kg. Curious. Adjustable drop links were disconnected through the process. Driver weight was added to the car when setting the drop link lengths.
Camber set to X74 settings: -0.5 front, -1.6 rear. Didn't get to set the toe today. The car drives fantastic already. I can push it around with no weird hopping or squatting effects. It carves turns really well. I think the plan is, get the toe done, drive 200 miles to let the springs settle, then double check the corner balance. Rinse, repeat.
And the consolation prize: Christmas gift Coco mats came yesterday! Woohoo! (no comments about the foam in the vents,, the job is nearly to the top of the todo list)
Early in the morning went out to do a grocery store run. Spent the day watching football, prime brisket burgers. Between games went out for a liquor 🥃 run. Decided to invent the 300 steps program. Smoked 6 lb prime rib for Sunday, more football. Stay tuned soul headers going in this week. Had to buy 24 pack toilet paper in case I soil my pants driving it fast. If you guys haven’t tried these HEB burgers pretty good, prime beef with brisket fat, pretty good blend if you ask me. Had to say hello to a good ole family member, only a little bit left, this one tastes a lot better as you go down the bottle. Bourbon 🥃, Wild Turkey 101 rye good price $15, early times cheap and early when I start smoking meats at 2-3 am. AA has the 12 step program, mine is better, 300 steps, from my car to the door of the liquor 🥃 store. Smoking 6 lb prime rib roast for today’s football games. Have to go with my homie fellow TTU grad Mahomes.
Who did you get the duck tail from? Was it a easy fit? I'm trying to find one but it seems that there's a lot of "hit or miss" with these.
Thank you
Who did you get the duck tail from? Was it a easy fit? I'm trying to find one but it seems that there's a lot of "hit or miss" with these.
Thank you
sorry i bought the car like that. What I would think it was one of the good ones, because all the other mods were expensive. you may want to initiate a a new thread here. The front bumper is also modified a fellow rennlister identified as tech art. I have never checked but maybe the ducktail is also Tech art.
Who did you get the duck tail from? Was it a easy fit? I'm trying to find one but it seems that there's a lot of "hit or miss" with these.
Thank you
sorry i bought the car like that. What I would think it was one of the good ones, because all the other mods were expensive. you may want to initiate a new thread here. The front bumper is also modified a fellow rennlister identified as tech art. I have never checked but maybe the ducktail is also Tech art.
sorry i bought the car like that. What I would think it was one of the good ones, because all the other mods were expensive. you may want to initiate a new thread here. The front bumper is also modified a fellow rennlister identified as tech art. I have never checked but maybe the ducktail is also Tech art.
imagine posting a picture of a cast iron skillet and also posting that
imagine posting a picture of a cast iron skillet and also posting that
You'd think using the Ignore feature on people would help, but there's literally no escape from his utterly useless posts. It's beyond annoying at this point. Thank God he can't post pictures on BAT.
Good alignment shops will place dead weight equal to your body weight when doing corner balancing to compensate for that. Good observation though. Otherwise it would be as useless as when some manufacturers providing dry weight for a car.
Pardon the ignorance but wouldn’t this change substantially when you sitting in the car or does that include a driver?
Corner balance is (LR+RF)/TOTAL. The drivers weight will add to the LR & LF. The corner balance may or may not change with driver weight. It depends where the weight is in between the front and rear tires along with the weighting of the car front to back. In my case, the balance didn't change. Adjusting the sway bar with weight in the car(99kg) is a detail that is likely only felt by a precious few drivers (not me)
The bigger question that gets argued about is whether any of this is necessary for a street car. I won't try to answer that. But, it's something I wanted to learn about. Turns out it's not terribly difficult to do if you have coil-overs that allow for easy adjustment.
01-23-2022 | 01:11 PM
Breakfast for the family and food for the rest of day.
Duck Tail on 996
