Are you sure you were on a flat surface during the corner balance? If yes then yea, about a 1/4 inch of wheel movement would be a good start. That's equal to 2 turns of the perch collar. If you want to raise the rear ride height a little then add two turns to the left rear. If you want to lower the rear a little remove two turns from the right rear.
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Yes I would assume so, it was done on the alignment rack. Due to upsetting the current ride height and alignment, seems like if I split it 1/8" per side ie; raised at LR and lower at RR, that would achieve the weight goal, but minimize the counter alignment/height effects? Thanks for your feedback Rob.

 

You also have the option of doing 1/2 turn on all 4 shocks but your plan of 1 turn per rear shock perch adjustment should work fine.

 

No freaking way if you're 200 lb. that your front left weight should go from 742 to 900 lb., not even CLOSE! If you're 200 lb., your sitting in the car shouldn't add more than ~55 lb. to the left front (~2/3 of your weight adds to the left side, ~40% to the front). Something else is going on here...

 

I see, well I like the idea of spreading that out between all four corners obviously. May do that. Thanks

 

Scale doesn't lie. Went to 900 on the nose

Maybe I'm getting some inconsistent stiction in the bushings, they do have some mileage on them. The interesting thing though is that I actually have the front springs pre loaded a bit and none in back ( same weight springs) I would think that would help isolate some of my weight to more of the rear since there would be more squat with a 50/50 distribution. Apparently the driver weight runs heavy up front on the S2000.

 

I don't see how! Looking at my FD RX-7 cornerweights, 60% of driver weight is on the rear wheels. S2000 should even put a bit more of the driver's weight on the rears, as the RX-7 has room for tiny +2 jump seats behind the front seats, where with the S2000 the seats are shoved back as far as possible relative to the rear wheels.

Your 200 lb. in the car *should* add roughly 120 lb. to the rear of the car and 80 lb. to the front. It seems impossible to me that your weight in the driver's seat could add 158 to the left front! What were the other corner weights. Genuinely puzzled and curious...

Regarding keeping the car at the same ride height, you wouldn't want to increase ride height on the LR and decrease it on the RR, that will cause the car to list to the right.

If you don't mind the car being a smidge higher, what you'd do is raise the LR and RF an equal amount.
If you don't mind the car being slightly lower, you'd lower the RR and LF an equal amount.

If you want to keep exactly the ride heights you have now, raise LR and RF, lower RR and LF.

 

This might help. My report from last week before any balancing.

 

Looks like S2000 driver weight distribution is a lot more like the 240Z. Numbers above => 33/67% front/rear, 75/25% left/right. So 25/8/50/17% LF/RF/LR/RR.
FD puts the driver more in the middle of the car, 40/60% front/rear, 67/33% left/right => 27/13/40/20% LF/RF/LR/RR.

 

rn53, how was your car setup for the weight sheet above? Were your shock perchs' set equal left to right? 50.3% is a very nice cross weight to start with.

Your cross weight percentages with driver don't add up: 50.2% + 49.4% = 99.6%

 

So why is my rider weight skewed so much more to the front? I forgot about the sway bar bias on the 01. Could it be because the rear sways bars are significantly stiffer in the rear compared to front? If the rider was placed in the middle of the car it shouldn't matter, but since I'm to one side? If I remember correctly, the sways on the 00-01 is roughly 250LB up front and 325LB rear. Every year after incrementally biased towards the front being stiffer.