Bought my own set of scales!!

Now that my Miata is drivable again, I wanted to find out how much it weighs and have it corner balanced. I guess it's because I work on cars, but I have really bad trust issues and hate having ANYONE do anything to my car, so I decided to just buy a set of my own.

I got lucky enough to find a good deal, so I was actually able to afford em, but last week I picked up a almost new set of Longacre scales with all the accessories. I would have liked to find a wireless set, but ill take what I can get.

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps5a192c76.jpg

im getting really ancy to set em up but it's too hot :(. Hopefully this weekend ill wake up early and enjoy the cold front we are suposed to get

Niiiiiice! Want to rent them for an hour at your place?

Wow very cool! :clap:

I will probably be offering corner balancing service once I get the hang of doing it

Sweet, would be nice to see someone other than a shop offering it, post up. You are welcome to experiment on mine haha. Tein flex's here for reference.

Nice score........you have a customer base here.

Since I had a nice 5 day weekend, I got around to leveling the scale stands and corner balancing the car. It came out heavier than I hoped, but I realized while I removed alot, I also added a few things. The car weighed 2100lbs when I first started and I was hoping to get close to the 2k lbs mark when I was done. But it looks like it still weighs about the same. I had forgotten that I had added a front diff mount, a rear trans mount, full FM betterfly brace/frame rails, and a cool suit system since I had weighed it.

This is with both seats w/harnesses (only had the drives before), an extra 4 gallons of gas, and the Cool Suite (filled with about 3 gallons of water)

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...pscbacba3f.jpg
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...psbf4fddd2.jpg


and with driver

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...pse5a0d343.jpg

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Originally Posted by 00MugenS2

I will probably be offering corner balancing service once I get the hang of doing it

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I am sure you will have this thing paid for in no time. Please keep us posted once you're in business.

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Originally Posted by gabkwong

I am sure you will have this thing paid for in no time. Please keep us posted once you're in business.

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+1

Very cool man.

I corner balanced an s2000 on Sunday

BEFORE

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...psac60a526.jpg


AFTER

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps9f4cb876.jpg



If anyone is interested in having it done to thier car, feel free to PM me and we can work out a time