b'TECH TIP PAGETech Tip 40: Rookie racers believe (or have been told) to set your crossweight at 50/50 whenyou scale your race car. This is only accurate, if your car has the same left & right side weights, with driver. We achieve this 50/50 L/R in Track-Warriors with optimum placement of the battery, oil dump tank, fire system & other accessory style weight.Production based race cars are left side heavy. 51/49 to 52/48 is common. These cars need the crossweight (LR & RF scales) to match the right side weight for equal left & right handling. If you set left heavy cars at 50/50, they have more grip on left hand corners & less on rights.If you want the car to have equal grip & handling on left & right hand cornersadjust your corner weights on the scales so the crossweight % (LR & RF) match the right side percentage. Tech Tip 41: Our Total Braking Torque numbers mentioned in the catalog are based on net stopping power as measured on a brake dyno, to account for caliper flex, with the suggested master cylinder size for average 180-195# man pressing 100# on a 6-1 ratio brake pedal. Ron learned early on drivers differ in size, leg strength & pedal feel preference. Usually, lighter drivers do not like to press the brake pedal to 100#. So, Ron suggests additional pedal ratio or smaller master cylinders to achieve the desired braking force & the right feel. Typically, significantly heavier drivers naturally push the pedal harder than 100#. So, Ron suggests less pedal ratio or larger master cylinders to achieve the desired braking force & the right feel. Talk to Ron Sutton about your height, weight & pedal feel preferenceand adjustable ratio pedalsto achieve happy braking right out of the box.Tech Tip 42: Rookie racers tend to want larger tires in the rear of the car for grip under power. If the car has 50% or more front weight, that is a bad choice. When working to achieve neutral handling balance, we actually need the tire sizes to match the cars front to rear weight bias.For example, Indy Cars, Formula Cars & Sprint Cars, have around 60% rear weight & 40% front. So, they need 60% of the total tire contact patch area in the rear & around 40% in the front. We see this size difference on these cars with huge meats in the rear & smaller fronts.Rear engine caror simply rear heavy carsbasically need tire contact patch area in the rear to match the cars rear weight bias. If there is more rear weight, the car needs more rear tire. If tire sizes dont match weight bias, achieving neutral handling balance is a harder job.In full bodied, front engine cars with 53% to 58% front weight bias, we actually need larger tires in the front. But no one does this. For this reason, running wider rear tires is not only of no benefit, it actually makes the job of achieving handling balance harder.So lets leave the monster rear tire sizes to the drag cars & run the same size tire on all four corners. Well go faster & have an easier job of tuning your car for neutral handling balance.129'