What is a Coilover? A type of adjustable suspension where the ride height can be altered by changing the spring preload. Generally speaking the coil spring is mounted on the damper and the spring is usually parallel. Occasionally some of the cheaper coilovers have a generic cartridge that fits into a model specific bracket or plug. These can be changed in length as well as changing preload.
Most cars on the market today use MacPherson strut suspension on the front and some type of beam axle on...
Back to Contents
Corner Weighting and Chassis Balance
Corner Weighting Service (approx £180-200 inc vat) and Chassis Optimisation service (from £83 inc vat per axle) from Balance Motorsport - located in South East England near Brighton and Worthing in Sussex Countryside
Please contact to make an appointment
Please note scales are maximum 500kg per wheel.
Case Study
A customer brought an interesting car to the w...
How does a dump valve work ?
A blow-off valve is an air pressure bypass valve that is placed between the turbo compressor and the throttle.
When your turbocharged car is on boost, the entire intake system is filled with pressurised air; from the turbo compressor, through the throttle body and inlet manifold and into the combustion chambers. When the throttle is closed, this pressured air can no longer enter the engine. The only path available for the air is to try to flow back the way it c...
Back to Contents
Whether it be Avon, Pirelli, Toyo or Yokohama the choice of tyres that you make is the most critical aspect of your suspension design and set up. Whether the vehicle is a track day hot hatch project that must run on the road or a single seater Formula car used for Sprints or Racing the choice of tyres dictates the basis for the set up, design and improvement of your cars suspension.
When you round a corner your tyres move across the surface ...
Back to Contents
Including Lowering, Roll Centres, Bump & Roll Steer, Camber & Caster
There is no doubt in the world of Aftermarket Tuning and Club Motorsport, that suspension geometry is one of the most overlooked factors. All too often you will see a car that has had literally tens of thousands of pounds spent on a high-power engine and braking set up, only to find that the suspension received a fraction of the budget and is often seen as an inconvenience. Many see...
Back to Contents
Most of us are aware that by converting the principle of an aeroplane wing were are able to create downforce which will increase the vertical load on the tyre and bring more grip. We know from the tyre choice section of the guide as well that it is the vertical load versus lateral grip capability of the tyre that is most important. Therefore aerodynamics can be used as a way to tune the chassis to ensure maximum cornering G-force. In Formula one aero...
Gecko Suspension was a brand name established by the owner of Balance Motorsport in 2007. A limited company was incorporated in 2007 and the Suspension systems were trialled successfully by a handful of customers.
Feedback on the suspension was excellent but owing to the costs of importing the kits the brand has only been used since by us on custom suspension kits. These kits can be built by a number of damper suppliers (We deal with Bilstein, Gaz, AVO etc) and appearances vary. Our Gecko ...
Citroen C1 GTI
a project by Balance Motorsport
0-60 7.9 seconds
60 MPG
£20 per year road tax
3 Cylinder 1000cc
Turbocharger Conversion
Sports Suspension
Rear Anti Roll Bar
Alloy Wheels & Tyres
£4995 installed, road tested and dyno tuned
We wanted to develop a modern hot hatch that combined light weight with high grip and excellent fuel economy. Since we started to develop C1GTI many major ma...
