Corner balance - suspension

[jaykay]

Originally Posted by thstone

Here is a good tutorial on corner balancing: Elephant Racing | Tech Topic | Corner Balance

"Corner balancing is the process of shifting the weight carried by each wheel to approach optimal values. Although some weight can be shifted between wheels by physically relocating parts of the car, the corner balance process is focused on shifting weight by adjusting the suspension spring height.

Street cars are rarely corner balanced and typically have no provision for adjusting spring height. That's because their spring rate is relatively low, perhaps 100 lbs/in. With such low spring rates it would take a huge imbalance in spring height to have a significant affect on corner balance.

Performance and race cars may have spring rates of 300, 400, 500 lbs/in and higher. Corner balance becomes much more important due to the high spring rates - small changes in height greatly impact weight carried. Additionally, we are much more concerned with handling and performance with race cars so corner balance becomes very important."

Will it matter? No, not unless you're trying to get that last 5% performance out of the car.

Great info thank you! Yes the light bulb popped on.....I am not running high rate springs and don't need the balance to the degree that another highly sprung car would....a ahh brain fade