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Figuring your corner weights is a vital step in performing a chassis setup. Many alignment shops can perform this task or recommend a shop that can. Once you've determined the weights, you can easily find out how much weight bias your car has. You'll first need to know how much your car weighs in total. For example, let's say our light car weighs 2,800 pounds with a driver and loaded with fuel. After having the car weighed, we found that the front tires each weighed 740 pounds and the rear tires each weighed 660 pounds. So if we add the front values together, we get 1,480 pounds (740 + 740 = 1,480), which divided by 2,800 is 0.5285, or 53 percent. For the rear, if we add up the values (660 + 660), we get 1,320, which divided by 2,800 equals 0.4714, or 47 percent. So our race car has a 53/47 weight split. View Related Article
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