Real World Truth On Scales....

[OldSkoolBmw]

I'm looking for some first hand experience. When I was looking at purchasing some scales to setup my little orange car with so I wouldn't have to drive 1.5 hours to borrow my friends, I cam across two types of scales. The longacre digial read out scales and the sprint car racer mechanical ratio scale. I don't know if you've seen them but it's basically a reduction lever to apply only like 1/4 of the wheel weight to a bathroom scale. Hypothetically they should work although kind of jerry rigged. Does anyone have any first hand experience with these? They're substantially less than the longacre units and mathematically are sound.

[LITEWAITM3]

Do it right, and get the digital scales. We have a set here, they work great!

if the car is light enough, you can get the high level karting/formula kit, which costs significantly less, 12" pads should cover enough corner weight for most light weight bmw racecars.

Just call longacre and see what the cheapest kit you can get is, its way better then any mechanical setup, as the calibration for those is pretty useless and off by a significant error margin.

[Dado]

we are about to buy a set too and www.cdoc.com has some great prices. Try contacting them and get a pricing, I think they even have a special going on right now.

[LITEWAITM3]

Dado, which set are you getting, also I know some people selling Pit and crew equipment CHEAP! Everything from Travel Listas to Scale ramps.

PM me if you want the info. Theres also a couple WC teams that are cleaning out thier former team shops, they are selling lots of machines, and shop equipment if you wanted some for your "dtm garage."

Let me know if you want the contact info.