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Old July 25th 2004, 18:01
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Superbeetle Weight Distribution Cornerweighted?

Does anyone know what the stock (or close) Weight Distribution is?

If it's a non stock what mods are done?

Has anyone ever had their cars cornerweighted? What were the results? Mods?
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Old July 26th 2004, 22:01
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I have read it somewhere a few times that the average weight bias is 40% front and 60% rear.
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Old July 27th 2004, 01:37
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I have read that too, lots in my work with FWD cars..

I'm wondering about the beetle though. I don't think the engineers would have cared what the weight dist. is; given the cars point and purpose.

Any ideas?
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Old July 27th 2004, 08:10
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Hi

You jsut need to see where the jack points are to see the centre of the cars weight is.

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Old July 27th 2004, 14:43
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jack points?
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Old July 27th 2004, 19:32
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Hi

Those little square things under the running boards, just in front of the rear wheel. When you jack a bug up there both the wheels on the one side will lift up. This shows how far rearward the weight distribution is. I know 50/50 would be ideal, but bugs have great success with their less than ideal weight distribution in all sorts of motorsport.

Corner weighting a car can really make a difference.

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