z060ntrack

Is this the correct order? Ride Height, Alignment, then Corner Weight?

It seems like adjusting corner weight last, would change alignment settings.

96CollectorSport

Corner weighting (or cross weighting would change your alignment settings.

The correct order would be ride height, cross-weight, (I typically adjust the sway bar end links at this time as well), and alignment.

More often than not you are adjusting the cross-weight on these cars, unless you are physically moving weight around in the car to get the corner weights to come out. Not trying to be picky, just saying the differance between the two.

Joel

beerkat

Talk to David Farmer. He can set your car up however you want and at a very reasonable price.

drivinhard

I do alignment last

z060ntrack

This is the order in which a renowned shop set up my C6. It didn't make sense to me.

wtknght1

Why not? You must set a base ride height; then get the corners right and then align it. You align it last because any change you make to the ride height alters the alignment (slightly or otherwise).

z060ntrack

It didn't make sense that they did the corner weight last, which is what they did.

davidfarmer

Generally, I corner balance last. You have to decide which is the more aggressive of the changes you are making. Usually if I'm taking a car from stock to a racing alignment, then the movement caused by the concentrics is more severe than the slight spring adjustments. However, occasionally I'll find that I have to make a BIG weight adjustment change, then I'll go back and tweak the alignment.

If you KNOW your ride height/corner balance is totally screwed up (like you dissasembled your coil overs and have no clue how they go), then I would do the balance first.

Back to my original statement though, in general, I lower the car (symmetrically), align camber and castor, then corner balance. I set the toe at the very end, since on a C5/C6, changing the toe has no effect on any other adjustment.

davidfarmer

sorry, just let me reiterate. I've only seen a very few cars that needed enough "wedge" adjustment that it made an appreciable change in ride height/alignment. You are usually just redistributing the load, not moving anything enough to actually change the ride height.

z060ntrack

Thanks Dave,

Following your method, I'll probably check / adjust toe only, and I need to adjust the tie rod to straighten the damn steering wheel, which won't affect anything.

I'll have the car on a 4 post platform lift in a couple of days and was just trying to put together a game plan without changing the corner weights. First and foremost, I want to make sure there isn't any pre load on the bars and then stiffen the rear bar.

Thanks Again

davidfarmer

I did a car a few years ago that had 300LBS of wedge in it, some was bar pre-load and some was in the springs. Even correcting that mess made next to zero change in the alignment. Back to the bottom line, the order isn't usually important, but do the (expected) more extreme first.