Waying a car

Go to the garbage collection site on Hwy 25- Bronte Rd just north of Hwy 5. They can weight you on the way in and out to see how much to charge you, for what you're dropping off. If they don't do it, I know for sure you can get that done at the dump between here and Dundas.

I had thought of going to a dump and getting weighed, but who knows how accurate those scales are.  Same as truck stops, and there aren't that many in service around here any more.

I suppose a race shop would do that?

Bob,

A race shop is the place to go.  If you do go for a weigh-in, you might as well have them corner balance your car at the same time.  If you contact them first, they'll explain what services they offer.

Well, I'll get on this, and see what happens.

Thanks to all.

Yeah, but if a race shop weighs it, it'll take you half an hour to wipe all the drool off of it.

Any place doing commercial weighing, like trash recyclers, truck stops, etc.....If they have a public scale it must be certified as accurate once a quarter by your respective government officials.  They're usually pretty accurate.

Or you could cajole Danny P. to bring his corner scales back to Carlisle and we can all do another weigh-in.  Personally, I'm about 30 pounds lighter than the last time he did us.

I've had mine done at the local grain storage facility nearby. A bit of an odd site for sure but they don't mind doing it and the scales are very accurate.  

http://cartechstuff.blogspot.c...t-balancing-911.html

Here is a Corner weigh article... INteresting & Costly. 

Good idea, David.

We have a feed mill just a couple of miles down the road.  I'll have to wait until Spring, though.  I used to buy chicken feed there when we had a small flock.  Never thought of going there.

And, there's also the regional waste facility or a truck stop as suggested above, if I can't get a race shop to do it.

Not sure I would really venture out on a corner weight set up unless I knew the shop was really experienced setting up 911's as it seems rather complex for the normal front end shop. 

In all other situations I would probably make sure the suspension points on the Front 911 suspension are set equally to center before I have the car alignment done. 

Hey Danny, bring your scales!  ��

I was going to say same, Lane - Danny works for beer too!

Ray, you're seeing this as way more complicated than it is.  

You weigh the footprint at each wheel and THAT tells you volumes about the stance of your car.  From that, you can determine where to add or delete weight at the car's corners (each wheel) to get your car balanced as you want it for the application you point your car towards, meaning, how it will handle under specific circumstances.  The weight balance for a drag car is a LOT different from a road course car and from an oval car.  The set-up of each is based on a lot of real-time experience of lots of racers out there and is relatively easy to induce and change (if you have adjustable suspension components).  

If you have good suspension design, these weight balance tweaks can be done very quickly (watch the NASCAR guys giving a corner "a few turns" in the pits - all they're doing is adding/subtracting weight from a specific corner of the car by increasing/decreasing spring rate on that wheel on a coil spring).  

All of this stuff is simple, once you unnahstan it, right?

So you add sandbags like in a hot air balloon  ... Now I get it..  

Exactly!  

Or Weider weights, if you're into that sort of thing.......but sand bags are probably cheaper.

A quick change can be done on the rears (and diagonally affecting the fronts) by tweaking the pre-load on the rear wheels by way of cranking the spring plates on each side, if you have adjustable spring plates.

Lots of ways to skin a cat, Ray.

I drove Bridget onto the local dump scale on 8/19/16.  With ⅔ fuel: 1940 lbs with me behind the wheel, the tool bag, jack and tire iron in the trunk, etc. (That's roughly 1765 lbs. without me in it).

I'd love to get corner weights, or at least front-to-back weight bias, and also weigh-in with the bumpers, spare tire, top and windshield deleted (i.e. "stripped for racing.")