weight

[Kevin Aue]

How do you set the weight & cross weight when you have no weight on the car?

[Garry Lobaugh]

Excellent question.
Is there a problem with handling?

Have you checked to see if the kart is straight, king pins straight and axle sliding free through the bearings?

How about the seat placement? All of these are very important questions.
We never check cross weights like some companies or customers might do.

I can continue to discuss further, so fire away, I'm sure your information will be valuable to all onthe forum.

[Marc Miller]

Hi Kevin-

In regards to scaling and cross weight, I can lend some advice. It is rare to ever measure cross weights or scale w/o the driver or weight in the kart. Even in our race CARS - we ballast the car to have the drivers weight and a set % of fuel in the car to standardize crossweights.

Also, keep in mind that cross weights are ultra sensitive and pushig down ont he kart's front end once... will change the cross weight... so repeatability is important. If you push the kart down front and rear on the scales once, then everytime you measure your weights and crossweights, you must do the same procedure.

We typically only scale a kart when we feel the chassis is damaged - and then the kart is put on a chassis table to check tolerences. So - we won't have corner weight or cross weight imformation to provide for you as a "baseline".

We assess our baseline by proper seat mounting procedure - then baseline chassis set-ups then track test to adjust from there. It has yeilded the quickest and best results.