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post Jul 2, 2010 - 10:45 PM
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Coil-overs & Corner Balancing

Hello All,

ok I've got a set of Megan coilovers on order. Just waiting for the boat to arrive. Now I've been doing allot of reading on these little pups and besides giving us the ability to drop our rides down to ridiculous lows they have a side benefit of giving us the ability of tuning our suspensions for better handling.

Here is one of the pages I found on the subject........... Tech-Tip... Corner Balance

From what I've been able to read up on so far, it seams as if getting the car to a 50/50 Left/Right weight distribution with the driver on-board will give us neutral handling. Sounds just like what I need for AutoX. But with our rides being FWD the front to rear is going to be no where near 50/50. So I'm wondering have any of the members of this board ever played with weight distribution with their coilovers? And if so what did you find out. Also I'm wondering if anyone has a set of corner scales they might be willing to rent out when I get my coilovers in?

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Roger
 
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post Jul 9, 2010 - 11:32 AM
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Thanks Tiga, yes I was making that statement.

The only way to really get 50/50 is to either make the celica into an mr or add more weight to the trunk (the second option you have the added weight issue). There is only so many thing you can shift to the back(battery, reservoirs, fuse boxes) and only so much added necessary weight (roll cage, rear under suports, wider back wheels). After everything done an said your still not going to be at 50/50 just because its FWD and all its main weight is still in the front.
post Jul 10, 2010 - 12:40 PM
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QUOTE (hatchy_gt-s @ Jul 9, 2010 - 9:32 AM) *
Thanks Tiga, yes I was making that statement.

The only way to really get 50/50 is to either make the celica into an mr or add more weight to the trunk (the second option you have the added weight issue). There is only so many thing you can shift to the back(battery, reservoirs, fuse boxes) and only so much added necessary weight (roll cage, rear under suports, wider back wheels). After everything done an said your still not going to be at 50/50 just because its FWD and all its main weight is still in the front.



50/50 is not the perfect weight distribution.


The weight distribution depends on the driver's style and what platform it is (fwd/rwd awd).

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