Weight Training

[rfn026]

I just posted an article on balancing a 911 from 1992. This was exotic stuff back in 1992. Now it seems that everyone has a set of scales.

I would say though of all the things I've done to my 911 over the years the scales, and the weight balancing, made the biggest difference in how well the car handled. You can buy all the trick parts you want but balancing the car out - and properly aligning it will be the most cost effective thing you can do.

Richard Newton
The Complete Trailer Handbook

[ChkbookMechanic]

I'm still amazed a lot of people don't do this with their sports cars. 911 or any other. It is decently cheap (compared to new suspension parts and engine mods) and does make a world of difference.

[KTL]

Agreed the corner weighting is very beneficial.

For a few years I had a tendency to spin the RR tire quite a bit on hard right turns. Finally decided to check my corner weights and the RR was comparatively very light. I cranked up the LF a bit to counteract the light RR and it helped alot, reducing wheelspin to only the tightest hard right turns.

This year I changed torsion bars & shocks (switched from 22/29 w/Bilsteins to 23/31 w/Konis), so I decided to finally do it right and balance it, plus apply some track-oriented alignment settings. WHAT A DIFFERENCE. First event this year the car was really hooked-up and performed better than ever. Never again will I mess with ride height without re-setting corner weights.

For street use, corner weights are not critical. For track use, it makes a boatload of difference.