F1 MECHANIC MAKES MY CAYMAN FASTER | Nürburgring Preparation | 4K 

Fantastic video, so good to see behind the curtain and an expert explaining how it’s done. I’ve been both educated and entertained. Love it!!!!

I love that Joey has such an organized, clean shop! That is a good sign. Joe, you are going to have more wear on the inside of the tires with the negative camber. Maybe you could take some measurements of tread depth before and after your trip so we can see how much wear is there? Thank you, Sir!

Really enjoyed this Joe, I suspect the MX5 owners tilted their heads when you said 1415kg was light tho 😂

So Mr. Joe, I wonder if you'd be willing to share your height. You sit many cars including the Cayman. It would be more than a little bit helpful to us taller types to see how well (or not) you sit a car knowing your inches. 😊

Fantastic video Joe, wow this guy is on another level……really really interesting

Solid bloke and great content! I leant so much watching this.

Your best video to date! 👍

He needs a mic. Video is ruined by the poor sound

As an American, I can’t understand 1/2 of what he’s saying.

Has those weights marked the leather?! 😮

1mm toe in on on the rear of all rwd cars ??? Really this differs massively between 12” or 20” wheels! What a load of rubbish 🤦‍♂️

Enjoyed the video, great work but something i noticed when doing this on a 981, the readings when creating the box differed front vs rear if you took your reading with the centre cap on or off. You could have it set equally but with the caps off you would see it wasn't square.

I’m having a bit of this 👍

I aligned my X5 E53 with axle stands, camber gauge and fine cord after a suspension over hall. When I went to get it checked on a Hunter it was only out on the tracking by a fraction. Well chuffed.

Use to this myself on Formula Renault, some old BTCC stuff and Formula Ginetta cars. Looks bang on that lad!

Gues we have to wait for the next video for how this track allignment performs on the normal roads?😉😬

I spent 9hrs there. Learnt so much and left with my car handling incredibly. Off back this week for Joe to do my brake lines and a tweak to my GEO. I will NEVER go anywhere else. Joe is on a different level of professionalism.

This is the man you want working on your track car. 🙌🙌

Good vid but your audio and how it is mixed freaked me out 🫤

Interesting show! That guy knows his stuff for sure. Cheers joe!

This guy knows his stuff, unreal 🤙🏼🤙🏼🏎️

Got you more chamber and the toe set in the right direction too.

My leaft ear enjoyed the video very much

Excellent info. Thanks.

You've still got to come and see my 06 Cayman, show you how to get gt3 power. @speckledj

Very cool

Sorry, but I have to respectfully disagree with his statement that the weight distribution front/back SHOULD be 50/50 (i.e 50% on his machine). No it shouldn't, the Cayman is a mid engined car, it's weight distribution is 47% Front 53% Rear by design. So your car is spot on and doesn't need adjusting. Rear weight bias is normal on a mid engine car, just as front weight bias is normal on a front engine car. BMW are about the only marque that makes a big deal about getting a 50/50 distribution, and even then they don't actually achieve it most are still around 51% front and 49% rear. The whole idea that 50/50 weight distribution is "ideal" is a myth. It's only ideal when the car is in a dynamically static situation, such as when you have the steering set at an angle mid corner and your in a constant radius corner applying neither brake or throttle. As you can imagine this situation hardly ever exiists in driving conditions. A slighly rear biased weight distribution helps in two critical ways when it comes to car performance: 1. It means that under heavy braking the cars weight distribution moves towards being 50/50 as the car weight transfers towards the front, leading to closer to maximum braking force on all the tyres (ever wondered why Porsches always do so well in brake comparisons?, it's not just the braking system that's the reason). 2. For a rear wheel drive car, more weight over the rear tyres means greater traction of the driven wheels, leading to better acceleration out of corners - the place where acceleration is most important for quickest lap times. So whilst in a mid corner static situation 50/50 may have the advantage, at other far more important times it's less than ideal. Why do you think F1 cars are mid engine? Because mid engine cars have a rear biased weight distribution. F1 cars don't have 50/50 weight distribution. It's front engined, rear wheel drive cars that benefit from having the weight as close to 50/50 as otherwise there's too much weight over the front under braking, and not enough over the rear for optimum traction of the rear driven wheels. That's why BMW aim for it, historically their cars are front engine, rear wheel drive. Front wheel drive front engined cars can get away with more front weight bias because that's where the driven wheels are, but then they suffer a lot comparatively under braking as the rear end just gets very light and thus you can't apply much braking force on the rear wheels or else they'll lock up. So FWD cars often suffer more under braking than 50/50 or rear weight biased cars. I'm really surprised by his statement, as any experienced car dynamics engineer will tell you the notion of 50/50 distribution being ideal is a falacy. Also trying to strive for a 50/50 distribution in a typical FWD, front engine car which stock will have around 60% over the front is pointless. Even if you can achieve it, which is highly unlikely, your front/rear ride heights are going to be so far out of wack the car will handle dreadfully. So in summary: Slight rear weight bias is the best for car performance overall, a shift of just 3-4% rearward has no significant negative handlng impact in static situations over a 50/50 distribution but gains other important advantages over 50/50 under braking and acceleration. 50/50 is the next best option, but it takes effort to achieve on a front engined car, and is next to impossible to achieve in a front engined front wheel drive car, only the likes of BMW, Mazda & Ferarri (with their transaxle designs with gearbox is at the rear of the car) etc, come close to achieving it and they're all rear wheel drive. If you want a more technical explanation watch this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vJhhUQ4OpLA.html

Top man Just think he puts a lot of trust in the jack(lift) hydraulics They only need to fail once