So I’m at the pointy end of the field in tag restricted light, 160kg restricted X30s. The whole field is hopping thru a left hand corner that is 90%-100% throttle input corner. I’ve tried many different approaches like less speed on entry or a later turn in but it feels slower (haven’t looked at data although I should). I was wondering If removing an excess loose bearing on the right side of axle and moving weight to the left side maybe on my seat would better the balance. I’ve seen that raising the rear tyre by 0.5-1psi can help which I’m yet to try and might help as I run the right lesser working side half a psi less. I’m wondering whether balancing the karts weight left to right would have any negative impact on performance. Thanks
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Im hope this helps with hooping !!
I was helped a lot , years before with that ideas
If everyone is hopping through the same corner and it’s only that one corner, it sounds like it might just be something you have to deal with.
The danger of tuning for a single corner is you hurt the balance everywhere else. The corner would have to be super important to offset what you lose the rest of the track.
Essentially you are trying to limit the flex of the kart for that corner to fix the hop, which may make the kart bind on the rest of the track where the load is lower.
Any time I am trying to get rid of a hop, my first change is widening the rear track slightly. You could try widening it a little to see if that settles the kart down in that corner and see if it hurts the kart at all in other corners. Hopping usually means you are just slightly over the limit of the tire and if you settle it down a bit the kart will be really hooked up. I like this change because it’s a small change and likely won’t hurt the balance too much everywhere else.
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Okay thanks TJ, also I have a question about left to right balance. I assume the weight is biased to the right because of the engine. Would putting weight on the left side of seat to counter that be worth it ? It’s a clockwise track and I understand it is probably just trial and error. Could be a dumb question but just let me know.
Yes generally you’ll want to put some of your ballast on the left side of the seat to counter the engine weight. No way to really know how much you need to compensate unless you put the kart on scales. If possible, you should definitely do this, as initial seat and weight placement is a fundamental base for the rest of your chassis tuning.
The seat is offset a bit to the left to help this already.
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Ahh ok this makes sense, I was getting really heavy and was having to take off weight on the kart. 1 change I made was a lithium battery, after many other weight changes the balance felt terrible and I’m pretty sure its because of the bias to the right.