How to Corner Balance a Car - The Simple Method
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- A step by step how to corner balance a car with coil over suspension using scales. I show how to properly weigh the car and give tips on setting up the suspension for equal balance. Adjusting the coil over suspension is a crucial part of making a car handle correctly and this video is a must do for anyone changing their suspension.
When I was apart of Porsches GT3 Club Program. We had steel stands we made in house that would bolt to the hubs, and matched the weight, and height of the wheels so we could make easy corner balance adjustments on the fly without having to lift the car and take the wheels off Everytime.
It may be something worth looking into if you find yourself doing this alot.
Do you have some picture of it?Not having need to lift the car? :-o
Legit! Gorgeous car. I've never seen one built without lambo doors and spinning rims. The public at large took this car for granted. I've loved the idea of a "Stealth VR4" for well over 2 decades now. Lol
instablaster...
Only here because of that stealth you got. Keep coming with its content please.
This was just enough video to make me dangerous 😎 thanks for showing the process!
Thank you for making this video! You have convinced me to not even try this in my garage.
The wheels I got on my WRX came from a 3000GT project car. 5zigen FN01R 18x9.5 +35 offset 5x114.3 love you car man.
Great video!
Thanks!!
I am staying for the Stealth! Nice channel
BROTHER! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEEN!?! LMAO
Brotherhood Of The Stealth!
Great video man. I'm Jeremy from Facebook, was talking to you last night. Always thought corner balancing was a little more involved. But appears pretty straightforward. Basically have everything laid out how you want it then adjust the coilovers to even it all out. Btw absolutely love the blue and the fact that it's a stealth. I'm building a 94 3000gt vr4 to look like a 93 stealth rt. And I plan on painting the car true blue pearl with white accents throughout.
Thanks! It really is an easy process, just time consuming jacking up the car and taking the wheel off every time. It helps to have the coil overs measured even left to right when installed as well. At least it's a good starting point.
Very cool to hear about your car, it'll be fun to watch it progress.
Looks good. Am I correct - I believe you need to disconnect the front and rear sway bar end links before corner balancing to eliminate any preload.
It should be unloaded as the car is flat already.
Hope this helps, Spring preload to jack the cross weight, once done you use the lower clevis to set the ride height equal, the doors need to be closed while setting the cross weights.
Just to clarify, you lowered the shock collar on the right front to effectively raise the ride height in that corner and distribute corner weight to it?
You pretty much got it. Trying to take advantage of the additional spring rate with a little bit of compression. If it starts to feel like it turns differently left to right, i'll add a bit of pre load to the looser side.
@@DoesItTrack thanks! It’s still lost on me how increasing ride height in a corner also adds corner weight, I assumed it would be the opposite. I imagine it as a tub of water: if you race one corner, wouldn’t the water slosh down to the corner diagonal to the one you raised, hence making the subject corner lighter?
@@gregrogers275 Think of this way. Standing on 2 legs, equal weight, right? Now start to lift one leg. The weight goes on the other leg.
@@DoesItTrack the lifted leg in this case would be the one with the reduced ride height?
@@gregrogers275 Correct!
Very good video! I've been thinking about how to adjust the my coilover. I'm a little confused, in your case, if the lower half is extended instead of the compression spring, the overall length of the suspension will be longer, and left and right may be uneven, right? Is it OK?
You are right, and that is not okay. Not only does the length of your damper affect the available bump/rebound travel relationship, which is key to performance, but the length effects when your bump stops are engaged relative to anything else. This is both a measurement that affects performance as well as your safety.
On the safety hand you need to set up the length of your damper setup so that the bump stop engages before the tires, control arms, or any other moving parts in your wheel well touch the frame/body of the car. This keeps you from damaging parts or cutting tires on fenders, which could end up in serious accidents.
On the performance hand, you don't want shocks to have different lengths left to right because that means one side will bottom out before the other. This will cause the car to pull in one direction under large compression events, which makes the car very unstable over rough terrain or large bumps. Not so confidence inspiring for a driver in a performance situation.
great
if an ae80 with 2A engine is replaced with heavier 4A engine, is it possible to corner weight the car?
I didn't notice if you leveled your scales. If not you will not have an accurate corner weights.
My garage is surprising level. I checked it with a long bubble level the best I could, along with the digital level gauge. There was a half degree deviation front to back, but close enough for what I needed. Good call.
@@DoesItTrack I had an epiphany recently. I would always try to get all four scales level with each other which was a big pain especially with getting front and back level with each other. All of a sudden I realized that since you can't jack weight front to rear that it didn't mater if the front scales were level with the rear. As long as the two rears are level with each other and the two fronts are level with each other the scaling will be perfect. I tested this by scaling as normal and then putting equally thick spacers under the back tires. No change. Same with tire pressure. As long as both tires are the same on one end the other end can be different as long as they are the same to each other. Keep up the good work on your youtube channel!
What kinda car is that! Good video :)
1992 Stealth RT
@@DoesItTrack sick
About how long did the whole process take?
3 hours roughly.
How do you get the suspension to relax since you're using jacks to lower it?
Take a look at 6:15, you'll see the aluminum sheets under the tires. They have grease between them, aka, the old turnbuckle plates for alignments. It allows the suspension to go fully down to resting position.
@@DoesItTrack Very good, thank you for the info.
heyy i have a question please does both sway bar connected on the test ?
You do want an end disconnected if you have any load on the bar at all. Then check it again after it's reconnected. If you have a lot of load on the bar stationary, there's something else going on too.
@@DoesItTrack thanks for your time and your answer but i cant do the setting with sway bar connected and still get correct numbers ? after all in track day the sway bar gonna be connected right ?
@@melekk0 you can get the numbers for sure, but it may have an uneven feel left to right corners. If it does, it's time for adjustable sway bars links where you can vary the tension.
Try leveling the scales next time for more accurate readings.
The floor is surprising level in that 3rd bay there. I've done this a few times and even flipped the car around to see how much the readings changed and it was only a few pounds. Whoever poured the floor in there did a great job.