Calculating your center of gravity

[Talleywacker]

I found this:

http://www.nesea.org/transportation/tour/involved/3.1-Center of Gravity Activity via EVC.pdf

Seems an easy way to calculate your center of gravity. Only thing you need is a truck scale or scale that measures weight on all 4 tires.

Should be benificial if your designing a 4link to dial in antisquat.

Also here is a pretty good excel calculator for setting up your 4 link http://mysite.verizon.net/triaged/files/4BarLinkV3.0.zip

 

[brainbypass mod]

what are the formulas that it refers to?

"Calculate Center of Gravity: Utilizing the formulas on the “Center of Gravity Sheet,” calculate the center of gravity for your vehicle."

 

[Spike Engineering]

what are the formulas that it refers to?

"Calculate Center of Gravity: Utilizing the formulas on the “Center of Gravity Sheet,” calculate the center of gravity for your vehicle."

The formula is fairly common (it's just Pythagorean's Theorem). Here's one web site with it:
http://www.thedirtforum.com/centergravity.htm

Someplace though, I have a link to Bill Shope's web site (it's an earthlink address) and he provides a different way to calculate the CG, without the errors inherent (and safety concern) in using the above method. If I find it, I'll post it.

 

[brainbypass mod]

http://home.earthlink.net/~whshope/index.html

where is it on there?

 

[Spike Engineering]

He must have removed it. I'll give him a call.

 

[brainbypass mod]

has anybody calculated it for a gen2?