Right 1st chance I've had to sit down and update this!
On the 14th of May I had my car corner weighted and set up by Center Gravity. Left my house at half 5 for a drive up to Warwickshire to be there for half 8, after a for service stops
Got u there on time and had a very warm welcome by Chris and his wife Jayne and a well needed coffee.
Had a good chat with Chris with what handling mods I have done to my car and what I be using it for. Then he got down to business, checked over all my mods, the bushes are okay, shocks fitted and look in good condition, checked the anti roll bars!
Made sure his ramp was all level.
Then did a load of measurements around the car, how the tyres were wearing, the height of the car basically a overall look at the car and how it is sitting/set up at the moment. Then he got out the Bilstein spec sheet and set up the coilovers to Bilstein's spec.
Once he got it to the Bilstein spec, put my weight out to the drivers seat
That's what I look like in free weights!
Then he removed the arb's because they will resists how the car sits as well
Then went about making more measurments of the car's height to get it level with my weight inside it. Once that was done, removed the car off the ramps and fitted all the corner weighing equipment and placed the car back onto the ramps.
(I forgot to take a pic of the corner weight equipment but can be seen on the next for pics)
Then looking at the cross axel measurments (rear passenger to drivers front and visa vicer) to make that 50/50 and then looking at the axel ratio weight (passenger rear to drivers rear and drivers front to passenger front) to make that 50/50. And then the front to rear of 60/40 ratio of the weight.
This is done by adjusting the height up or down to shift the weight around the car. For example if the passenger rear had too much weight and the drivers front had less weight then raising the passenger rear and lowering the drivers front will shift the weight towards the drivers front.
While doing everything on the car Chris talks you through what he is doing and is happy to stop and explain something to you, plus Jayne supplying loads of coffee lol.
Once he is happy with the corner weighting he then fits the eqiupemt to set up the tracking and camber of the car
The rear passenger camber and toe was stop on but the drivers rear had too much negitive camber and too much negitive toe so he removed the hub and placed 1.2mm shims, checked the measurments, removed again and altered the amount of shims till he was happy. But it wasn't as straight forward as that because one the bolts were siezed and then snapped, which took hours to remove and burnt out every drill bit he had.
But fair play to Chris whereas by the time I would be shouting, swearing and throw tools around he was charm and after a cup of coffee and 2 hours of attempts he removed the bolt.
Once he was happy with the set up he takes the car for a test drive with you in the passenger seat, takes it around his "test route" which he does with every car... 1st stop around a small roundabout, goes to 30mph comes out and says "Thats good because the record is in a ferrari maranello at 34mph" and it was damp when we were on the test drive. Happy days thinking that, onto a dual carrageway.... shows the steering wheel straight and the car goes straight then tells me that the car will go to the left, leaves go and puls to the left.... next duals the car will pull right, leaves go and so it does! The car is following the camber of the road.
Takes it through a bumpy B road and shows how easy the car is to handle then lets me drive...... telling me what corners are ahead the car grips well, so easy to drive and it's mind blowing how much grip it has! Hardly any moment in the steering wheel is needed and sooo easy to corner. Would really recommend this done!
