Cornerweighted the DSM

[UofACATS]

Installed my coilovers and jumped on the scales. I dropped 180lbs of free weights in the pass front, spread out as appropriately as possible. I had a full tank and all that..

I forgot to write down the crossweight before I started adjusting, but I remember it being 53%, which isn't bad. The front heights were 660.4 and 660.6 from me eye balling it last night while installing them, so I went to work on the rear of the car first. Dropping the LR 20mm got me really close to 50/50, so I decided to tweak the front. I went up 2mm on the LF and got that lovely 50/50 (actually 49.9/50.1%) what a waste of time!!

Anyways, here's the stats

Ride height: (doesn't look "lowered," it just doesn't have that stock dsm it's actually a 4x4 montero look).
LF: 660.6
RF: 660.6
LR: 680.6
RR: 700.6

Weight:
LF: 997
RF: 921
LR: 671
RR: 592

Vehicle weight: 3001 lbs
Vehicle weight with driver: 3181 lbs

Left: 52.5%
Right: 47.5%

Front: 60.3%
Rear: 39.7%

Crossweight: I'm rounding to 50/50

 

[Flash]

Does your car have the full interior?

 

[snowborder714]

Did you disconnect the sway bars before messing with the suspension?

 

[UofACATS]

Does your car have the full interior?

No. I've gutted the hatch, removed the stereo and associated paraphernalia, removed the airbags, etc, but I do have all the seats and plastics installed so it looks stock inside. I have some other weight savings such as no intercooler, etc.

Did you disconnect the sway bars before messing with the suspension?

I didn't. I don't have adjustable end-links so the justification wasn't there. Personally I see no reason to cornerweight with them disconnected, get off the scales, then connect them and ruin the balance . Mostly I wanted to get an accurate vehicle weight for the series I'm running, and I thought maybe get something decent out of cornerweighting. I had no expectations of getting the cross to 50/50.

I do plan to install adjustable endlinks and redo the procedure. It'll be interesting to see the preload, if any, the bars show,

Other than that, car feels great

 

[snowborder714]

I'm assuming you've seen this, but if not, here's how to build adjustable end links. If you do this soon (before I get around to cornerbalancing my car), let me know how it goes.
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/han...e-front-sway-bar-end-links.html#post152221948

 

[UofACATS]

Yep!! Very informative as usual.

I swear I just copy what you guys do and everything works out great!