Need someone with wheel scales

diabloadsit

diabloadsit

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Ok guys. My uncle has a 928s Porsche and just bought a set of Eibach springs with Bilstein adjustable shocks. We are looking to install them but need scales to corner balance the car afterwards.

Does anyone have anywhere they know I can get some or anywhere I can go?

Thanks.

 
I know EFI has them but that is a bit far. Have to see what my uncle wants to do. I have already informed my uncle earlier about DSG. So he might have to go there. If he does I will go with him.

 
Check out the race teams for Oxford, Beechridge, Wiscasset. Many of the Prostock and Superstock guys have their own scales. Even some of the Kart guys have 1000lb scales(x4), which is plenty big enough for a 928. We had that guy in Scarborough (chassis fabricator..cant remember his name) do our karts the first season, then a friend had his own scales and we used his the second season. Those are long gone but it would be worth a shot just to start calling around to the stock car guys to see who has scales you could rent/borrow.

 
Check out the race teams for Oxford, Beechridge, Wiscasset. Many of the Prostock and Superstock guys have their own scales. Even some of the Kart guys have 1000lb scales(x4), which is plenty big enough for a 928. We had that guy in Scarborough (chassis fabricator..cant remember his name) do our karts the first season, then a friend had his own scales and we used his the second season. Those are long gone but it would be worth a shot just to start calling around to the stock car guys to see who has scales you could rent/borrow.
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Yea the car is going to be pushing the scales. She weighs about 3700 lbs. Shes a heavy one.

 
if you just need % per corner you can do it without scales. we used to do it for the stock cars.

 
How'd that happen?

Dont you need the weights to get the percentages? I used to do it with our karts on bathroom scales.
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Haha yes I went to Wally World and got 4 scales. I put the scales on top of cinder blocks, then placed the kart on the scales. Driver got in and the weights wrote down, then I had to do the percentage math. Then I'd make changes. The problem was the kart tires were too fat and I couldn't get the kart high enough to read the numbers well so I used a mirror. A girls bath mirror. Yeah, Jamie gave me all kinds of grief about that.
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It was not a fun time. I could never get the driver to hold still much more than 5 minutes and a 315lb kart and driver tended to make the scale numbers jump around a lot.
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The Longacre scales are much much better!

 
Ok, I see now. With that method Instead of adding them all together you do the percentages for each corner individually

 
So question should he get his car weight balance then get an alignment or should he do the alignment then get the car weight balanced.

 
Ah the age old question. On race cars getting it scaled is the alignment. Anything goes. set the spring heights, get the alignment, then scale it, then check the alignment again, then scale it again. Every time you change spring height or shift weight you are affecting the alignment. You have to find your compromise. that's why a lot of guys will have camber gauges on the wheels while they are scaling it. You could very well end up with uneven ride height, uneven camber, and caster on the flat shop floor and have an even balance % which is fantastic for racing road tracks, but not so good for high crowned Maine roads.

 
Ok guys. My uncle has a 928s Porsche and just bought a set of Eibach springs with Bilstein adjustable shocks. We are looking to install them but need scales to corner balance the car afterwards. Does anyone have anywhere they know I can get some or anywhere I can go?

Thanks.
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I dont know about corner balance without camber plates and coilovers... but... for a dd just put the springs on the car to lower it... make front mid to full hard (mine are full hard and ride fine) rears set to full hard). If you dont like it make them softer. but on a rwd car I like super hard suspension.

 
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