SoCal - Need corner balance, alignment, coilover install & setup, part installs.....?
04-29-2008, 09:18 PM
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SoCal - Need corner balance, alignment, coilover install & setup, part installs.....?
Hey everyone, I just wanted to give a strong recommendation to a shop in SoCal called M-Workz. The shop is run by an ex-Nissan chassis engineer (ask for Steve). He offers the work of a professional engineer (something you don't get just about anywhere else) at prices that are cheaper than any shop I know of.
He does 4-wheel alignment for modified street and/or race cars, corner-balancing, installation of all suspension components such as springs, shocks, swaybars, bushings, camber plates, tie rods, bump steer kits, roll center correction, endlinks, etc. He also does installs of turbo/supercharger kits, headers, exhaust, even LSD installation and repair. Just about anything you can think of, he can do; and will do it well, at competitive prices.
If you have coilovers and have never properly corner-balanced them or set them up, you will be amazed at how much better your car drives & handles after a properly done (yes, it's easy to do it wrong) corner balance + alignment.
Here's their website with contact info and directions: http://www.m-workz.net/index.html
- Stop by, even if just to drool over his gorgeous 550+whp 350Z Time Attack car
He does 4-wheel alignment for modified street and/or race cars, corner-balancing, installation of all suspension components such as springs, shocks, swaybars, bushings, camber plates, tie rods, bump steer kits, roll center correction, endlinks, etc. He also does installs of turbo/supercharger kits, headers, exhaust, even LSD installation and repair. Just about anything you can think of, he can do; and will do it well, at competitive prices.
If you have coilovers and have never properly corner-balanced them or set them up, you will be amazed at how much better your car drives & handles after a properly done (yes, it's easy to do it wrong) corner balance + alignment.
Here's their website with contact info and directions: http://www.m-workz.net/index.html
- Stop by, even if just to drool over his gorgeous 550+whp 350Z Time Attack car
04-30-2008, 01:26 AM
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Also FYI, a proper corner balance and alignment consists of:
- Leveling the scale pads correctly with a laser which takes a looong time (rather than most shops who just put scales on the "flat" concrete ground)
- Scale your car (with your driver weight equivalent in it)
- Adjust the cross weights
- Adjust the ride height and rake
- String your car
- Set the camber
- Set the toe
After all this, if you want to change ride height or rake, you can do so without messing up the corner weights as long as you go up or down equally on both sides. Not to mention the big effect doing all this properly has on handling and stability.
- FWIW...
- Leveling the scale pads correctly with a laser which takes a looong time (rather than most shops who just put scales on the "flat" concrete ground)
- Scale your car (with your driver weight equivalent in it)
- Adjust the cross weights
- Adjust the ride height and rake
- String your car
- Set the camber
- Set the toe
After all this, if you want to change ride height or rake, you can do so without messing up the corner weights as long as you go up or down equally on both sides. Not to mention the big effect doing all this properly has on handling and stability.
- FWIW...
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