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Some advice: don't bother with the usual "corner-weight balancing", it is not optimal unless maybe you are a NASCAR driver, where wedge would be important. What you really want is for the car to behave with the same under/over -steering characteristics whether you turn left or you turn right. To get that, you want the same forward/backward weight bias on the left as on the right. In other words, you want: LF/LR = RF/RR This is approximately true when you corner-weight balance, but you can make it exact if you know what you actually want. You are no doubt saying, "So all those racing guys are wrong, huh?" Yes. They are. The corner-weight thing started because in the days before calculators it was easy to add the corner weights together and compare. These things become gospel over time and people forget why the compromise was made. Now, with a calculator, you can do the ratios easily. Also, corner-weight balancing kept its importance because most racing in this country is NASCAR, where wedge is important. Thus the $1000 scales you can buy proudly advertise that they will compute corner weights for you. But wedge isn't important to us. So don't corner-weight balance. Side-ratio balance instead! Those $1000 scales can do the ratios too. You just need to tell them you want them.
- John
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