Corner weight, yes or no?
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Burning Brakes
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Corner weight, yes or no?
I installed coilovers this winter and I am going for alignment soon. I do not autocross nor do I plan too. Do I need to get it corner weighted, or will a alignment be just fine for me. I have searched recent threads on this topic and it seems autocrossers/roadracers benefit more from corner weighting. Again, I will not be tracking the car. Thanks
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No you do not need to corner weight. As a matter of fact Pfadt will tell you they don't bother weighting cars that arn't hard core. These cars are very close without touching anything. With mine I put it on the scale on all 4 corners to see were it was and just by moving the battery to the passenger side in the trunck to counter the blower weight will make a difference.
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When we install coilovers, corner balancing is a part of the install. While I agree that unless you are doing HPDE, you won't derive the greatest benefit from corner balancing, I think you will feel the advantage of the coilovers.
Melting Slicks
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Most definitely you need the corners scaled. Any car that we get in with coilovers installed gets scaled. You may think that counting the threads on the shocks is accurate enough but the last car I did (2010 Camaro) both the height and weights were off. Weights by about 100# if I remember right. If you are spending all that money for the coilovers it would be foolish to not have them working to their full potential. 
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Yes you can corner weight a car and adjust height but unless you start adding or removing and or moving around weight which is true corner weighting it is not needed to go nuts with it on a street car and even if it sees a event or two a year. Put the coils and sways on put it on a corner scale adjust the height see what you can do with what you got ,align it with you in it and enjoy.
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