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Old 11-02-2011, 02:40 PM   #48
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Originally Posted by SUB-FT86 View Post
When you sit in car like this and the weight dist is 53/47, depending on the weight of the person you can cause some rearward bias to make it closer to 52/48 or 51/49? Also putting the battery in the trunk helps too.
From the "see-through" drawing, the driver's center of mass appears to be approximately halfway between the axles, so the weight will be added about equally to the two axles. So it's not like, say, and NC Miata that is a percent or two front-heavy empty but 50/50 with a medium-sized driver.

Adding passengers to the back row will certainly put more weight on there rear axle.
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