I'm a huge follower of the Lotus 7 cars, namely the Caterham Super 7. While doing some reading this evening on a club member's website, he corner-weighted his Birkin this way:

http://home.earthlink.net/~slomove/id10.html

Our MINI is over twice the weight though. Any novel ideas? Just curious...

 

a reasonable set of corner weight scales from Longacre costs around $900. You are probably better off garnering the dough than spending the time monkeying with that set-up. you really want to have a scale under each wheel at the same time.

 

I had mine done at professional shop and it wasn't very expensive.......They used a pretty sophisticated high resolution rig

 

A long time ago in a distant galaxy - mt first corner weighting experience was, well, interesting. The work was performed by an ex Atlantic Lights guy. He tried and tried to corner weight the car as if it were a single seat open wheel car. I don't remember the values at this point, but he came very close to placing an ideal amount of weight over each wheel - front wheel driver too. Trouble was, the drivers side rear was two stories higher than the passenger front and well you get the picture. I asked him about the alignment while starring at my car with a frightful glaze..."Oh, we don't align cars here."

 

meb, a nice laugh to start the day . Thanks.

Oh, I'm all for the expense of having it professionally done... because once might be all I need if I don't change things much after that. I just found it interesting, with plenty of creative types around here, thought I would share...

 

Man, the guy with the Seven must have way too much time on his hands!

Dave
2003 DS/B MCS, 15%, soon to put the new anthracite Ro-Ta's and Avs's on.

 

You can go and find-out... I believe he's in San Diego .

Actually, I've been emailing him and another Cat guy re one for sale . I've been posting there more than here the past couple of days. I'm a total newbie all-over again, trying to get educated. The MINI is pretty well-respected, that's always nice to see.

I don't know where this guy gets the $, but he has and had some very nice rides:

http://www.dpcars.net

Click on "Past" in the lower left... The MINI got a nice review!

 

The dpcars guy is very knowlegable and I am following his DP1 car project avidly.

Since you are in San Jose just give TC Design a call. They have a complete digital scale set and do very good work