CarlB

I have done a lot of this type of work and my MINI has coil overs. I would highly recommend PT tuning for the alignment. If your goal is to autocross or track the car, I would recommend camber plates. The stock camber settings might be good for tire life, but they limit the amount of cornering force. I have and use my wheels scales to corner balance my car. If you are not autocrossing or driving on a track, I would spend the money on something else. You can change the way the car handles by adjusting the static weight on each wheel. The way the magazines describe corner balancing they are trying to get the cars handling balance in both left and right turns equal. A Mini of any other production car is going to have more weight on one side or the other and therefore it will corner in one direction better than the other even after you set the wheel weights. What you achieve is the same understeer oversteer balance right to left turn because you eliminated cross weight. Think of cross weight as a tables four legs being the four tires on your car. If one leg is slightly longer the table will distribute more weight on that leg and less weigh on the leg on the opposite end and opposite side. It is important that the ride heights be set very carefully. If you do that, most of the bias the wheels scales would dial out will be eliminated and you will be close enough. Wheel scales are a very good tuning device, and there is no one way to set the wheel weights on a race car. Lots of front wheel drive race cars set the wheel weights equal with the driver in the car because late braking (and having both wheels doing equal work) is critical to lap times. They sacrifice the corner balance in right and left turns for better braking. I balance my autocross car with me in it so I do not have any cross weight but I tune the understeer oversteer balance by raising and lowering the rear ride height. The wheel weights give me a more precise measure of my set up than ride height. If you want to corner weight your car you will need adjustable sway bar end links. To do the job correctly you set the wheel weight with you or equally distributed weight in the car and the sway bars disconnected. Then you hook up the sway bars with out changing the wheel weights. Doing that without adjustable end links is almost imposable. If the front sway bar pushes down on the right front, when it is attached, it changes the corner balance.

See you at one

We will stay for the race. The last 15 minutes are where it happens. Everything leading up to that is just figuring out what they need to do.

No problem - Looking forward to seeing you

Thanks to everyone who came. Faith and I had a good time seeing everyone. If you forgot a insulated bag that says Western Federal credit Union on it, we have it. Let us know and we will bring it to a event. Great excuse to come to the Daytona 500 Drive.

We are looking forward to it! Spring can't be far off.

MMMMM deviled eggs - Faith is allergic to eggs

If you can, find something at Fontana Village. Everything centers around Fontana and all the other places are some distance away. If you aren't on the list now call and get on the list for Fontana Village. The forums will have threads about rooms coming available, you need to pay attention to those and post that you are looking. Check with club members who might have cabins and need people to share their cabin. Believe me you want to be in Fontana.

I will be there and am doing the Thursday Brewery Run again.

Good beer and fun people. We enjoyed meeting you, come to more events.

Yes!!!!

There was a IMSA sports car race there a number of years ago. I have never done a autocross there.

For some reason Eibach doesn't sell a single bar for the F-56. They only sell a front and rear bar as a kit. Tire Rack sells that for 436.59. They also have springs for 261.63. The HR springs are a little less.

Do we know where they are starting and going?

Edge there are newer rubber hoses that can stand the ethanol. The same type of hose used for aftermarket brake lines can be used but it is expensive. Lots of race cars use it because of the safety issues. A bigger issue with the modern fuels with ethanol is it eats the metal parts. Especially the pot metal the carburetors are made out of. The fuel additives the lawn mower people sell help, but long term storage is a problem.

Cool video!! I would like to go with you Chris, but my time isn't my own right now. My Wife has some health issues and I need to look after her. Please continue to post these events.

Thanks for all the fun at the party

We are going to a vineyard Saturday evening close to you. I can bring them then. I would like to drive a MINI to the picnic, and I need a tuck for all this stuff.

I can bring pop-ups and or tables. Let me know. I would be very interested in helping with the run. I would like to put a run together to go to the 868 vineyard in Purcellville. Faith has a cousin that has is singing there. She is very good and has performed on Broadway. She just graduated from music school and is trying to get a following.

You can get a custom rack made, but it is likely to cost a lot of money. I would not be surprised at ten grand. You could search detentions and ratios of other racks and see if they could be adapted. You could modify the spindles with shorter steering arms, but you would have to move the rack to correct the bump steer. All options are expensive.

Not the Best time this year, but I still really enjoyed myself. Hopefully no more camping out for 15 years. Seriously I hope Fontana buys some big generators. MINIskirts party was great.

They helped me with a oil leak before leaving for the Dragon. They checked out everything for me and did a great job. I would highly recommend them.

We are back. I would have enjoyed the autocross, but Faith got sick. Got home last night. I enjoyed the trip even though we we were camping out. Hope everyone gets home safe and had a good time.

Your mods would put you in street modified front wheel drive. I suggest you run street. Your engine mods are minimal and you will be competing against JCWS. The actual class is STX

My memory is that there are a lot of Shell stations