I'm really enjoying these more detailed technical videos recently, thank you for sharing the knowledge!! I'd love to know a bit more about how rake affects balance, specifically in the MINI F56.
Great stuff - really interesting! Would you be able to do a video on setup after static adjustments? So setting up bump and droop adjustment, arb adjustment, the order etc.
Hey there! Great information on this topic. I am curious to know what individual ride heights did you change in each corner to achieve these final mass values? I know you raised the front left but what changes did you make to each of the other three corners in ride heights? Thank you!
wait a second, your corner weight formula is not correct. at 6:05 (FL+RR)/(FR+RL) gives you actually 94.2%, you can achive 51.2% as shown on whiteboard like that: (LF+RL)/total_mass.
How does camber change the corner weight and wouldn't you have to re-align it after corner weighting anyway? So I'm wondering why bother with aligning it prior?
It’s cyclic, if two wheels have very different camber, one side will sit higher than the other. The corner with more camber will be sat lower than the corner with less camber due to the angle of the wheel from vertical having more horizontal travel (therefore sitting lower). So you need to ensure the settings aren’t completely out of line such as on a freshly built car that we used in this video. Then once corner weighting is done you re-align the car as the corner weighting will affect the geometry so the final alignment makes smaller corrections that don’t have a large effect on corner weights but correct the geometry back to where we want it 👍
Great explainer video. On coilovers with separate ride height and spring preload adjustment, should we be changing spring preload rather than ride height?
I always wondered, I live in a zona where streets are quite harsh and not the best quality. Is it worth to corner balance / do a geometry alinment in my car if I keep hiting a pothole here and There?
Yes it is definitely worth doing as the corner weighting is set by altering and settings differences in ride heights. These will keep the corner weighting settings to a degree even after going over a few potholes. It’s not ideal for the car to keep going through potholes but you will still benefit from the grip improvements 👍
@@SuspensionSecretsThanks for the quick response and great content aswell! Here in Portugal sadly the roads are quite degraded, so potholes are not even and there are a lot of fissures on the road. I try to keep on the safe side always and go slow, but sometimes it's impossible. Any feedback on D2 Racing Street Coilovers? Only good brand that has coilovers for my car with TUV apart from KW(V1) on the same range
hi Matt, great video as ever. On braking, would some of the weight on the rear not come forward so the imbalance at the rear could end up having a negative impact on braking as well?
Thanks for the comment 👍 yes it would transfer slightly but the whole imbalance wouldn’t travel. This is where we talk about making the compromises as we always have to make an informed choice over which numbers and differences to prioritise to get the best from that particular car we are working on. It is always a fine balance 👍
Loved the geeky technical content. Always look forward to these videos.
Thanks very much! Glad you are enjoying it 👍
What a bloody brilliantly done video 👏👏👏
Thanks for the comment and glad you enjoyed it!
I'm really enjoying these more detailed technical videos recently, thank you for sharing the knowledge!! I'd love to know a bit more about how rake affects balance, specifically in the MINI F56.
Thanks very much for the comment! Yes no problem at all we can certainly cover rake angle and it’s effects in some future videos 👍
Great stuff - really interesting! Would you be able to do a video on setup after static adjustments? So setting up bump and droop adjustment, arb adjustment, the order etc.
Thanks for the comment. Yes we will be covering these in future videos as well as part of our BMW projects too 👍
Hey there! Great information on this topic. I am curious to know what individual ride heights did you change in each corner to achieve these final mass values? I know you raised the front left but what changes did you make to each of the other three corners in ride heights? Thank you!
Great work mate. Well explained & presented.
wait a second, your corner weight formula is not correct. at 6:05 (FL+RR)/(FR+RL) gives you actually 94.2%, you can achive 51.2% as shown on whiteboard like that: (LF+RL)/total_mass.
Otherwise you've made exceptionally good video. Thank you!
How does camber change the corner weight and wouldn't you have to re-align it after corner weighting anyway? So I'm wondering why bother with aligning it prior?
It’s cyclic, if two wheels have very different camber, one side will sit higher than the other. The corner with more camber will be sat lower than the corner with less camber due to the angle of the wheel from vertical having more horizontal travel (therefore sitting lower).
So you need to ensure the settings aren’t completely out of line such as on a freshly built car that we used in this video.
Then once corner weighting is done you re-align the car as the corner weighting will affect the geometry so the final alignment makes smaller corrections that don’t have a large effect on corner weights but correct the geometry back to where we want it 👍
Great explainer video.
On coilovers with separate ride height and spring preload adjustment, should we be changing spring preload rather than ride height?
We have a really detailed article on this linked here for you 👍
suspensionsecrets.co.uk/coilovers-installing-and-setting-ride-height-correctly/
@@SuspensionSecrets great. Thank you 👌
I always wondered, I live in a zona where streets are quite harsh and not the best quality.
Is it worth to corner balance / do a geometry alinment in my car if I keep hiting a pothole here and There?
Yes it is definitely worth doing as the corner weighting is set by altering and settings differences in ride heights. These will keep the corner weighting settings to a degree even after going over a few potholes. It’s not ideal for the car to keep going through potholes but you will still benefit from the grip improvements 👍
@@SuspensionSecretsThanks for the quick response and great content aswell!
Here in Portugal sadly the roads are quite degraded, so potholes are not even and there are a lot of fissures on the road.
I try to keep on the safe side always and go slow, but sometimes it's impossible.
Any feedback on D2 Racing Street Coilovers?
Only good brand that has coilovers for my car with TUV apart from KW(V1) on the same range
* While still maintaining the ride heights close enough at each corner?
hi Matt, great video as ever. On braking, would some of the weight on the rear not come forward so the imbalance at the rear could end up having a negative impact on braking as well?
or in other words, the imbalance at the rear pulls the centre of gravity to one side so would impact braking as mass will act through the CoG?
Thanks for the comment 👍 yes it would transfer slightly but the whole imbalance wouldn’t travel. This is where we talk about making the compromises as we always have to make an informed choice over which numbers and differences to prioritise to get the best from that particular car we are working on. It is always a fine balance 👍
Thank you for this kind of video.
Great content!
Thank you 🙌
Great content 💪
Fantastic
Thank you 🙏