calculating ideal corner balance weights Options

[brant]

do folks around here calculate Ideal corner weights
we always do and usually can get within 1lb on each corner..


but I see everyone posting cross weights and no mention of calculated ideal weights...


for those that don't you should really look into doing it.

brant

[john rogers]

Hummm, not sure what "ideal" would mean? When we balanced the 914-6 every winter we went with equal weights side to side both front and also rear. This was done with me fully suited in the driver's seat, cool shirt cooler loaded, full fuel cell and engine warmed up so oil would be distributed as per race trim. We never worried about front to rear or cross weights since all the tracks we ran on were pretty much even in loading and if they ran clock wise or counter clock wise.

What I was surprised with was the fact that the car's weight would change from year to year and we could never figure out why? My weight stayed the same and no changes were made to the car after we did the big weight reduction with all the fiberglass bits.