Using weight to help steer?

[FastFox]

Hey all you smarter racers than me.

My son and I are in the midst of building a laddered car body and are about to place the weight. Plan on using JsFiddle's COM visualizer and 3 scales to measure everything. What are the recommendations for the COM X... keep it at midline or towards the left to help steer the RF wheel in a rail rider configuration? How much left if that is advisable?

Thanks

 

[T-Bone Racing]

I try to get the two rears as equal as possible. If your going to make a side heavy, then yes, the steer side would be best. Also, if you have three scales, then you could base it on the weight of the front wheel.

Hoped that helped.

 

[Roadrunner]

I’ve wondered about this too. Is there a benefit to having one rear heavier than the other? I think that the fast guys say to balance it equally. The jsfiddle tool shows us that the weights need to be offset to the dfw side to achieve equal weight on the rears. Counterintuitive, right?

 

[T-Bone Racing]

I’ve wondered about this too. Is there a benefit to having one rear heavier than the other? I think that the fast guys say to balance it equally. The jsfiddle tool shows us that the weights need to be offset to the dfw side to achieve equal weight on the rears. Counterintuitive, right?

Well, I usually try to get my rears equal, if one side is heavier, I always prefer the steer side. This will help prevent the car from wiggling too. BuT whenever I make the steer side heavier, it’s usually by no more than 2-3 grams. If you have a track to tune on, or your in a league race, you can play around with the weight to see what gives you the best time.

 

[Racing358t]

I find chasing equal rear weight bias is a mixed bag. Recently I have quit worrying about it and just pack as much weight as I can as far back as I can (within reason). Bigger gains to be found elsewhere like perfecting the rear alignment and perfecting preps of the wheel bores and axles along with the application of the graphite or oil.

Scott

 

[TRE]

12 cubes in back the rest iin front

 

[Charles Studer]

You can't go wrong with that kind of help!