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Weight bias/tire pressure

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Subject: Weight bias/tire pressure
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:24:40 -0500
I had the car on the scales and found a couple of things that are interesting
and worth noting for future reference.... thought I'd share them with y'all...
( yep it's one word...)

First off its my bet that this car actually ran in the 60% rear / 41% front (
had to pitch that one percent in there just to bug Dave and Mayf )  the car
was Mostly built for El Mirage best I can tell...or at least that's the take I
have on the current set up....

And secondly most important with solid rear suspension it is hyper critical to
have the tire pressure exactly right when your measuring it's weight...
fixing a 15 lb disparity cleaned up the back end on the scales by 60 lbs (
making them equal )  I've still got some front end issues but I'm going to
save my comments until I get some more of the actual weight on the car...

so if your scaling your car make sure the tires have the same air pressure

Keith

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