Determining weight
12-11-2010, 05:09 PM
#2
Race Director
Some ideas: truck stop/gas station with scale, landscaping place that sells stone - they have a scale to get your weight before and after loading up the rock, local club with scales/NASA SCCA etc etc at an event.
12-13-2010, 10:34 AM
#9
Le Mans Master
12-13-2010, 11:21 AM
#11
Racer
wife's uncle borrowed mine this week to weigh an experimental open cockpit bi-plane. 1k lb plane. relocating a battery and re-figuring cg and all that. hopefully he won't crash 
12-13-2010, 01:26 PM
#12
Drifting
Possibly. My car was 3306 with me and 1/4 tank on the scales used by Mid-Atlantic. A virtually identically prepared car with driver and 1/2 tank was 3225 on the SE scales at CMP. Both of these C5Z06s were stock (plus rollbars and seats). Could be variance in both, one is high and one is low.
Either way for NASA, those are the only two scales that matter to me until I get to Nationals. I am only going to run TTs with Mid-A and SE and I would like to know my weights on both sets since "theirs" is the only one that matters at the track/event.
-Kevin
Either way for NASA, those are the only two scales that matter to me until I get to Nationals. I am only going to run TTs with Mid-A and SE and I would like to know my weights on both sets since "theirs" is the only one that matters at the track/event.
-Kevin
12-13-2010, 01:48 PM
#13
Race Director
there is no excuse for a sanctioning body not having accurate scales. Have a buddy walk around and stand on each one individually, and they should all measure the same (and correct weight).
I had a load cell go bad once, and had to send one of my pads by to Intercomp. They told me each one was "matched" to a particular corner, so if you just layed them out randomly and plugged in the wire for that corner, they would not be accurate. Everyone may be wireless these days, but I've since color coded my cables and pads to ensure I use them the way the manufacturer intended.
I had a load cell go bad once, and had to send one of my pads by to Intercomp. They told me each one was "matched" to a particular corner, so if you just layed them out randomly and plugged in the wire for that corner, they would not be accurate. Everyone may be wireless these days, but I've since color coded my cables and pads to ensure I use them the way the manufacturer intended.
12-13-2010, 02:30 PM
#14
Le Mans Master
I spent a lot of money this year on my scales mainly to make sure I was weight legal.
The last thing I wanted was to show up and be light which would ruin my reputation/credibility (if I have any
). I felt very confident that the guys I was racing against were legal so it wasn't a big deal that we went all year without impound, but as I bounce around in classes next year it would be nice to have an occassional random weigh in on accurate scales.
12-13-2010, 02:41 PM
#15
Racer
12-14-2010, 10:21 AM
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You will get weighed if you come to Mid-Ohio and if you do well at Nationals you will be running across scales constantly.
The way it should be IMO, anytime you break a track record you should at least have to weigh in.
The way it should be IMO, anytime you break a track record you should at least have to weigh in.