someone make this...and sell it to me
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judging from how that looks, im sure it works. No idea who designed it, or I would ask them. Just saw this in a diffuser thread in gen section
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I think the designer is an aerodynamics engineer.
This is NASCAR county, we have four Wind tunnels here in NC.
The little aero I have on my car, splitter and spoiler, once the car's rake was set up properly, the difference on high(er) speed corners was immediately noticeable.
This is NASCAR county, we have four Wind tunnels here in NC.
The little aero I have on my car, splitter and spoiler, once the car's rake was set up properly, the difference on high(er) speed corners was immediately noticeable.
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Drifting
I think the designer is an aerodynamics engineer.
This is NASCAR county, we have four Wind tunnels here in NC.
The little aero I have on my car, splitter and spoiler, once the car's rake was set up properly, the difference on high(er) speed corners was immediately noticeable.
This is NASCAR county, we have four Wind tunnels here in NC.
The little aero I have on my car, splitter and spoiler, once the car's rake was set up properly, the difference on high(er) speed corners was immediately noticeable.
Did you get a bigger SOP improvement from putting on the splitter and spoiler, or from adjusting the rake after they were on?
I'm not suggesting you didn't get a big overall improvement, since I run both splitter and wing on both cars, and felt the difference on each when they were added. And saw the lap times drop.
I am suggesting that the overall performance benefit may be anyplace between miniscule and fantastic. You can determine this in a wind tunnel, or with a real pro driver that runs consistent lap times within .1 secs..... bolt it on and see what he does. That also needs to be a fast bolt-on install to avoid atmospheric and track temp differences.
IMO, coast downs are not reliable metrics unless you have a ton of electronics to measure everything.
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I'm going to take a WAG, that flowing from front to back, the really sharp angle that takes place from the curving part to the flat part (which would position approximately parallel to the ground) shouldn't be there?
You may laugh, but I always like to think of fish and airplanes and would you see an angle like that (in the flow direction) on either?
Seems like a turbulant low pressure area would develop (sort of just where you don't want it).
You may laugh, but I always like to think of fish and airplanes and would you see an angle like that (in the flow direction) on either?
Seems like a turbulant low pressure area would develop (sort of just where you don't want it).
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Drifting
Right, that's why GM developed both C5R and C6R pieces in their windtunnel.