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6th January 2012, 20:16
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Put the Saxo on corner weights the other day :)
Thought it might intrest you guys 
I didnt take the back seats out and the boot was empty
Everything else is pretty stripped.
I was surprised at how light it was lol.
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7th January 2012, 07:47
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chhers, id be interested to hear what you weigh and how the car was balanced with you in it 
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7th January 2012, 13:54
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fucking diagonals. every bloody car is on diagonals and you can't do jack to corner it
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7th January 2012, 14:36
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fucking diagonals. every bloody car is on diagonals and you can't do jack to corner it
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pardon?
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7th January 2012, 14:44
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Originally Posted by adamskiTNR
fucking diagonals. every bloody car is on diagonals and you can't do jack to corner it
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Huh? lol
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7th January 2012, 14:46
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chhers, id be interested to hear what you weigh and how the car was balanced with you in it |
I was thinking that but forgot to lol. If i was sat in it, it would only un balance it on the right anyway lol.
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7th January 2012, 15:29
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The joys of LHD car converted to RHD 
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7th January 2012, 15:54
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the weights always being diagonally paired. so when corner weighting it is hard to get a nice balance. as increasing weight on one corner will increase weight on the opposite diagonal. so to get weight off the front right you would lower it. but this would also take weight off the left rear. which is the lightest already
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7th January 2012, 17:08
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Quote:
Originally Posted by adamskiTNR
the weights always being diagonally paired. so when corner weighting it is hard to get a nice balance. as increasing weight on one corner will increase weight on the opposite diagonal. so to get weight off the front right you would lower it. but this would also take weight off the left rear. which is the lightest already
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Should that last bit be the other way round? Higher to take weight off the front right, but that would make the rear left heavier?
Or Lower the left front but that would make the lightest corner lighter?
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7th January 2012, 20:26
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you make a corner higher to add weight to that corner
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7th January 2012, 20:31
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you make a corner higher to add weight to that corner
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Ahh right, thought it was the other way round.
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7th January 2012, 23:23
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can we have pics to see the extent of strippage!
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7th January 2012, 23:26
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wonder how hard it would be to spin the engine round. 205's have exhaust mani's at the back, certainly doable.
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8th January 2012, 00:39
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Well, you could do it, and just use a Honda gearbox as they spin the "wrong" way. Fabrication would be a pain in the arse, but it would work in theory.
AX Sport ftw.
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8th January 2012, 17:32
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Ahh right, thought it was the other way round.
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Yeah I thought it was the other way round, from when have done it at college been a while since used them though...
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9th January 2012, 15:24
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oooh, interesting, what's been stripped?
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13th January 2012, 03:50
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Iv stripped all the sound proofing out, put the carpet back in, removed all door cards and replaced them with plastic door cards and the rears done too. Still have the back seats in and have no spare wheel . Hope I never get a puncture lol.
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13th January 2012, 03:59
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You only really need to be exact with weight distribution in Motorsport, when your trying to make up every 10th/100th of a second. When i was working with a race team on a formula Renault we had it perfect on the front and only 0.5kg out on the rear, with the driver sitting in it too.
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13th January 2012, 20:24
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Bit lardy that. 
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14th January 2012, 13:49
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lol, whats yours at now, 290kg or something?
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