Home  |  Forums  |  914 Info  |  Blogs
 
914World.com - The fastest growing online 914 community!
 
Porsche, and the Porsche crest are registered trademarks of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG. This site is not affiliated with Porsche in any way.
Its only purpose is to provide an online forum for car enthusiasts. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
 

Welcome Guest ( Log In | Register )

> Corner Balancing Question, With a twist
ellisor3
post Jan 16 2012, 04:32 PM
Post #1


HPWhore
***

Group: Members
Posts: 811
Joined: 23-October 08
From: Fleming Island, Florida
Member No.: 9,683
Region Association: South East States



I took my car to get it corner balanced, and all seem to work out pretty well. Then went to get the alignment and had some issues. I posted about that and got some really good feedback that will help me solve the problem.

Then today as I was looking at the situation again I noticed another problem. The ride height of my car is higher in the passengers rear than the drivers rear by 2.5 cm. I don't know how I or the shop that did the corner balancing missed it.

Here are the numbers from the weighing

LF 599 RF 541 =1140
LR 724 RR 678 =1402
Total weight 2542
Left side is 52% Right Side is 48% Cross weight is 50.23

To Correct the balancing, take the weight of the total of the front and multiply by the corner to be corrected: 1140x52%=593 for the LF 1140x48%=547 for the RF
1402x52%=729 for the LR and 1402x 48%=673 for the RR

Corrected quadrants

LF 592(-7) RF 547 (+7)
LR 729 (+5) RR 673 (-5)

Since I have steel flares, I measured the height from the floor to the lip of the flares and they are the same.

I also checked the height setting on the shocks (Bilstein Sports) and they are equal to each other.

What would make the car higher on one side?
Could the sway bars cause this?
It seems one option would be to raise the LR to not only equal the weight but correct the ride height. The only thing that puzzles me about that is that the shocks would be set in two different positions, is that normal??
User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post

Posts in this topic
ellisor3   Corner Balancing Question   Jan 16 2012, 04:32 PM
SirAndy   Could the sway bars cause this? I always disconnec...   Jan 16 2012, 04:54 PM
SirAndy   If your car sits funny after all that is done corr...   Jan 16 2012, 04:56 PM
brant   It might be higher on one corner on purpose I mean...   Jan 16 2012, 05:01 PM
drgchapman   Could be a bent tub. Been there done that.   Jan 16 2012, 05:03 PM
Travis Neff   It would be more accurate to measure from the grou...   Jan 16 2012, 05:14 PM
brant   It would be more accurate to measure from the gro...   Jan 16 2012, 05:37 PM
SirAndy   It would be more accurate to measure from the grou...   Jan 16 2012, 05:55 PM
Racer Chris   Don't ever take a 914 to that shop for alignme...   Jan 16 2012, 08:15 PM
stewteral   [quote name='ellisor3' post='1605791' date='Jan 16...   Jan 16 2012, 10:52 PM
Racer Chris   ... I do NOT disconnect swaybars as I'm look...   Jan 17 2012, 09:10 AM
stewteral   ... I do NOT disconnect swaybars as I'm loo...   Jan 17 2012, 01:48 PM
brant   Terry, there is such a thing as optimum, or targ...   Jan 16 2012, 11:00 PM
stewteral   Terry, there is such a thing as optimum, or tar...   Jan 17 2012, 01:44 PM
brant   [quote name='brant' post='1606095' date='Jan 16 2...   Jan 17 2012, 04:45 PM
PRS914-6   I highly recommend that you find a way to make the...   Jan 17 2012, 10:03 AM
stewteral   PRS914-6 Hey Paul, With that $1200 equipmen...   Jan 17 2012, 02:02 PM
tradisrad   I played with cormer balancing my car with Ruggle ...   Jan 17 2012, 02:11 PM
jmill   For the DIY guys don't forget to level the flo...   Jan 17 2012, 05:01 PM
ellisor3   So based on what I have read and using my example ...   Jan 17 2012, 05:32 PM
SirAndy   It seems that raising the left front would push do...   Jan 17 2012, 06:29 PM


Reply to this topicStart new topic
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:

 



- Lo-Fi Version Time is now: 23rd May 2024 - 11:27 AM