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Navin Johnson
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Wantagh, NY
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A little bit light, a corner balance story
I finally got around to corner balancing my car. I took the scales home from the shop... and rolled my car onto them.
The car is "wet" i.e. 3/4 tank of fuel, full oil tank.. full cage,etc... This is the initial weights with me just having eyeballed the ride height....meaning I set the springs so that the car looked nice and had an even stance. pretty damn close!!!  took about 5 minutes to achieve this balance.. Im going to throw a couple of sandbags into the driver seat tomorrow and really dial it in a bit closer.. With my newly more svelte self (I lost 30 lbs in the last year) the car+driver should weigh less than 2100# In all 1846# aint to shabby 
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04-06-2007, 05:33 PM
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Navin Johnson
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forgot the "after" pic
this was after a few minutes of adjusting the spring collars 
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04-06-2007, 05:35 PM
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Tim, That is damn lite! Is there a minimum lbs for the class this will be running in or is this just a fun track day car?
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04-06-2007, 06:49 PM
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Navin Johnson
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Its a race car ...No minimum in PCA .. in NASA I'll have to do a dyno pull and get into one of their GT classes
I'm already trying to figure out where more weight can come off the car.... except that there isn't much left to lighten..
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04-06-2007, 06:53 PM
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is that with you in the car?
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04-13-2007, 06:41 PM
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Navin Johnson
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The car is a 69 911, the weights pictured are empty, with me in the car it weighs about 2025#
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04-14-2007, 01:16 AM
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Navin Johnson
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since no one gives a hoot that my car weighs 1846 wet... this exercise can confirm the guestimates on this link
http://early911sregistry.org/jCalzia.html I have identified where I can take more weight off the car...
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04-14-2007, 08:45 PM
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I give a hoot, but didn't know what to say as my "lightweight" 84 weighs nearly 500lbs more....
 Pretty darn impressive, I am Jealous. Cheers
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04-14-2007, 10:31 PM
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just 837 kilogramms !! thats pretty impressive Tim
Cheers,
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04-15-2007, 02:15 AM
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Back in the saddle again
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You're into "R" territory there. Impressive. Hell, that probably weighs 600#s less than my miata.
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04-15-2007, 06:28 AM
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that's pretty darn lite!
excellent job!
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04-16-2007, 02:05 AM
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FWIW Tim, I'm impressed. That car should be a real hoot out on the track.
I find it a whole lot easier to lose weight in the car than it is to lose weight on the me. Regards,
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