What adjustment points does Scott use to equal out the weight when he does corner balancing if the car does not have coilovers? I've done hundreds of different corner balance and suspension setups for different types of race cars, but that all had coilovers or similiar height adjustablities. Also, does he use a driver in the car or set it up without the weight? I'm also ASSuming that he does a 50:50 split since most of our cars are street or street and track. Does he ever play with camber, caster, and toe?
He, or they, can and will play with any adjustments your car has as far as I know and that's with you in the car on the alignment rack with the scales all set out and stuff. Will did my corner balance when I got my coilovers put on and even though there was minimal adjustments made I couldn't be happier with my cars balance. It's almost perfect! I don't think our cars have castor adjustments but camber and toe are definitely a go.
If the car does NOT have coil-overs all we can do is align it. The performance alignment is guaranteed to 0.1 degrees on camber and 0.02 degrees on toe. If the car does have top-plates there are some tricks that can be done to gain castor... SS
Scott, Have you every used used a program call LapSim? Its mainly for race cars, but from what I understand, you do a few of those as well. I use it on single seaters to udjust suspension variables, you can put in the information of the vehicle and it will simulate the cause and effects of each change without actually doing it. You can also upload a track and it will simulate track times for every change that is made i.e. tire pressure, compounds, ride height, caster, camber, toe... The predictions as far as the lap times are pretty damn close too LapSim
Cool. I'll have to give that a shot. I was actually trained on the $100,000+ ADAMS software (Audi used it on their LMP cars), but never got to the point of simulating full tracks. I'll have to check out that lapsim thing. There are an awful lot of variables in these cars though. The most complex thing in the STi's would be modeling what their differentials are doing... SS
I want an STi transmission. Oh well though. This is a pretty interesting thread. Keep it coming n' stuff.