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Originally Posted by Subarumidget
Hi, I’m curious if anyone has weighed or scaled their midget. I’m curious about the weights. If someone could give me a ball park about how much weight is on each tire I would really appreciate it. RR, LR, RF, LF. With or without driver is fine, I would like to see weights with driver in car though. I think we have too much weight in our rear, and not enough weight on the front making our Subaru midget hard to drive. Also is there any ideas to move the cars weight to the front end without having to add any additional weights? Our weights with driver in car we have now are RR 296 LR 430 RF 194 LF 195.
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I'm really old school, but won a lot of races in the 70's and 80's but I'm way behind now so excuse me. I do not think some of the basics has changed though. But i see people blocking the cars and all kind of other gimmics to set them up. In my opinion it still comes down to how hard those 4 tires are pushing down on the ground. (Less so with the front but you still have to turn the corner). With that said, I'm in favor of scaling the car. Without the driver. On very level pavement. Use a water level to find the most level place. Shocks disconnected if possible, if not set on the lightest compression and rebound settings or use some old shocks with the guts removed so they're only holding the coils in place. Put the tires on that give you the approximate stagger for the track you're going to run. What's the proper stagger? In a perfect world, the LR would be just large enough that if the RR and the LR were connect to an axle (only an axle, even a piece of tubing with hubs installed to mount the tires would work) the same width as the car. The axle with tires should roll freely and follow the race track and but ultimately have just enough push that the RR would hit the wall coming off the turn. In other words, a little push. Because of the offset of the cars today, I'm not sure this is possible but some left rear weight should be adjusted into it. Start with 20 LBS left rear. Increase inside weight if its loose. Don't add weight to the car, adjust the preload on the bars or coils. I think you had 134 Lbs of left rear with the driver. That would have made any of my cars impossible to turn a corner. I'm probably going to be told i'm crazy or wrong but you need to start somewhere. Good luck