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03whitegsr · 06-25-2012, 08:58 PM

You can't move weight front to back with suspension height adjustments so looking at it on the scales while adjusting cross-weights is a waste of time. 50/50 weight balance is something you have to think of in the building stage. It's too late to worry about it once you are putting the car on scales to adjust cross weight.

Another big reason I'm doing it is simply to test it for application on my primary project car. I have a pump out of a Mazdaspeed 3 as well that has CAN bus for RPM, VSS, and TPS and I want to figure out the mechanical side of this pump and see how it works out before digging into the CAN side of things.

FWIW, the MR2 pump weighs in at 10.2 pounds.

Just a fun piece of info, this weekend auto-x had a new M3 in my class, built suspension, engine mods, and hoosier A6s. He beat me, but by 0.8 seconds on a 50 second course. I love driving the hell out of a POS car and running that close to $100k cars.

06-25-2012, 08:58 PM	#15
03whitegsr Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Utah Posts: 62 iTrader: (0) Photo Gallery	You can't move weight front to back with suspension height adjustments so looking at it on the scales while adjusting cross-weights is a waste of time. 50/50 weight balance is something you have to think of in the building stage. It's too late to worry about it once you are putting the car on scales to adjust cross weight. Another big reason I'm doing it is simply to test it for application on my primary project car. I have a pump out of a Mazdaspeed 3 as well that has CAN bus for RPM, VSS, and TPS and I want to figure out the mechanical side of this pump and see how it works out before digging into the CAN side of things. FWIW, the MR2 pump weighs in at 10.2 pounds. Just a fun piece of info, this weekend auto-x had a new M3 in my class, built suspension, engine mods, and hoosier A6s. He beat me, but by 0.8 seconds on a 50 second course. I love driving the hell out of a POS car and running that close to $100k cars. Last edited by 03whitegsr; 06-25-2012 at 09:05 PM.