weight in car

[rock city racer]

Ok guys I'm getting ready to put the tungsten cubes in . I assume I want to get weight as evenly distributed as possible on the rear wheels . I have one scale . If I place one wheel on the scale and the other on a block of wood and go back and forth will this get me close or do I need another scale?

RCR

 

[Chief]

too many variables...What Xactly are you building? Cub scout car, Street pro, etc???

 

[rock city racer]

Street Stock . I will be my first entry for the NPWDRL .

 

[Chief]

Two rows of 6 cubes behind the rear axles, the rest in front

 

[rock city racer]

Will do, Thanks .

 

[Obsessedderbydad]

Two rows of 6 cubes behind the rear axles, the rest in front

The ones in front will be an odd number so make sure the majority is on the DFW side.

 

[LightninBoy]

Ok guys I'm getting ready to put the tungsten cubes in . I assume I want to get weight as evenly distributed as possible on the rear wheels . I have one scale . If I place one wheel on the scale and the other on a block of wood and go back and forth will this get me close or do I need another scale?

You don't *need* another scale. What you described is essentially what I do. Its a pain, but doable. Every time I do it I curse myself for being too cheap to get another scale.

Couple potential gotchas ...

* Make sure the other 2 wheels (the other rear and the DFW) are sitting perfectly level with the wheel on the scale.

* Level the DFW and off-scale rear wheel with different blocks/shims - in other words don't use the same block of wood to lift both of them level with the on-scale rear wheel. This probably doesn't matter with a nice flat piece of wood, but I once tried to raise both the DFW and off scale rear wheel with some shared paper card stock - and got bizarre inconsistent results - which went away when I raised them independently.

 

[Obsessedderbydad]

the best way to weigh a car on a scale to make sure its perfectly balanced is to just take an uncut block of wood and put that on the scale first, zero the scale, then put your car on the block.