Snapshot

After watching the Rolex Daytona 24 I'm wondering if should have gotten a wing for my wide body... not. Ever see a wing that looks right on a street 7? Others?

13b_drifter

The one on your avatar looks good.

DAVID GRIMES

How could I argue with a professional artist ? You're so right. What was I thinking... a tail on a street 7... silly me !!! I am ripping my **** off right now with one hand while I type with the other. This is the first time I've ever experienced a case of "only certain tails are better than no tail at all".

Lets me and you drop the art crap as if it were a substantiator of personal opinion. See, I build very large houses that I design and draw the custom plans for. One of my printers is a Designjet 430 for D scale prints. ( Yeah, I don't need color for blueprints) I refuse to draw or build the same house twice. I'm half owner in an interiors store, too. Use planit millenium software ( 5000 plus annual updates ) for kitchen design with colors and light, etc. Do I preach scale this and contrast that and "texture this while you're at it" ? It's each to his/her/its own.

I've seen my share of degreed design people that know what they see but still have bad taste and judgement. Most people on this forum and in life fall into one of two catagories: 1) They know what they like and choose it. 2) They don't know and can't tell, so they ask others or guess and ask for approval.

You and I fall into the first catagory, so no matter what we say to each other, you will not like my flying whale tail and I will detest your mini blinds.. I mean louvers. I don't want you to copy me and I won't copy you. Whoever said "Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery" was a mindless twit. See, I like your car for you. I like mine for me. Neat how that works, huh ?

851stgen12a

well said David~~

thekyl

HAHAHA I love that david nice spend of words I feel the exact same way I want 16 inch wheels and spoilers and ground effects and nice engins and all the cool stuff but I want it to be totaly different from everyone else.

steve84GS TII

Well if you do put a wing on a street 7,you might as well use one that is authentic.None of that universal crap.
My GTO wing might be considered gaudy or overblown,but it is an RX-7 specific wing,made for the car by Mariah back in the 80s.It may not serve much purpose below 100mph,but I wanted something to cap off my widebody project,yet I didnt want what everyone else had....

speckamp

Personally, the stock IMSA spoiler or a nice porsche style whale tail are the only wings that look right on a FB to me...

All the rest are blah and don't fit the lines IMNSHO

--matt

13b_drifter

Someone once said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder....but what happens if he's blind.

BTW, nice...

steve84GS TII

Then the beholder starts feeling you up to detemine if your fugly or not!

Thanks!

apexme

heh the red rx7 is extremely hot...

John64

I agree, its your car so do what you want. Steves looks real nice. Remember they are for looks until you hit around 100mph. The they become functional. I personally like the ones made just for the car, all of them are lower in profile and look good. Those 4 ft tall three storied ones look like ***.
Just my 2 cents.

Feds

Don't you need blue?

Wing = heavy rear end = oversteer = crash

leif

I think they were talking about wings like the ones you find on FIA GT cars...like the porsche 996 GT3 RSR (see picture)

I think it would look good if!

1) the uprights were far apart as possible
2) the wing has to have a wide back to front area...none of this 3 inches BS...it has to be atleast 8-10 inches wide to look ok on our cars...otherwise they look puny and useless
3) the winglets on the side have to extend downward a bit...

Im thinknking about doing this to mine.

From my experience the back end tends to lift at about 180 km/h which is about 105 MPH

leif

something like this (although i in no way support the rest of the crap this guy did to his FC

RX7FROMCAL

go for it man , it will look good, best of luck

YapaKanichi

I have yet to install my wing on the mazda. It's a whale tail but I want to get a lip kit and everything else first before I go putting the wing on. I'd a silver car w/ black doors and a black whale tail.

Snapshot

You are right Leif, I was speaking of a "wing" not a spoiler. And Steve, I would have gone w/ your spoiler (my favorite!) had it still been available - like the ones on many of the IMSA 7s of the 80s.
David, you deserve a new paragraph. If I had the funds, I would try my hand at designing a wing for my 7. Something way up on 2 pedestals & that flows w/ the lines of the car. I doubt I could have it tested in a wind tunnel but whatever. Give me a day or 2 & I’ll whip something up. I don’t have 3D CAD software but depict medical equipment & body parts for publication pretty well in CDR. I’ve only recently gotten back into my RX-7 (after almost 10 years) & have no idea what is out there other than what the mainstay dealers have had forever. BTW: I haven’t put the louvers back on since the wide body – but was thinking about it…

LongDuck

'Strutted' wings are for high downforce at the expense of induced drag - this is bad for top speed, but good for cornering. There's no way to increase downforce without also increasing drag, this is a tradeoff that everyone must make for appearance.

For me, I'm willing to make the trade for looks. I don't drive faster than 100mph on very many occasions, so I prefer the sleek looks of a blended spoiler that helps to keep air separated at the rear of the car.

Some may choose wings, and more power to them,

Snapshot

I just found my wicked spoiler photos on wide body race FB 7s. I'll scan & post them tomorrow.
Still looking for a few good wings. Gave up on fuction & just want it to not look "stuck on".

apexme

i choose a wing... you can get the 'basic' aluminum wing off ebay for like 40 shipped and make custom side plates for them to conform to your tastes... and it looks unique

leif

the e-bay wing is too narrow in the fron rear axis...it makes the car look huge...which spoils the sporting looks...

there are some on eribuni i think look nice...even one that looks like a rip from a C5R

and wings also allow you to go faster...you may not hit the theoretical top end of your car...however you can increase the realistic top end...

i.e. as i already said...my car tends to lift at about 180km/h but this is not my cars theoretical top end...(i think i have read that some have seen closer to 212km/h)
but due to aero restrictions i cant reach this...but with a wing at a low angle of incidence i may indeed be able to see 205-210...again...lowwer than the theoretical...but higher than my realistic

shm21284

Umm... Wing (if done right) = kickass grip (hopefully you have a front airdam or some sort of downforce up front)

Oversteer = fun

Heavy rear end??? Uh, no not really. You see, it does effectively add weight to the car, but the weight is always pushing down, not attached to the car in any way shape or form. Heavy rear cars do indeed have trouble controlling oversteer (at least moreso than front biased cars, in most situations); however, when you go into a slide or drift with lots of downforce, the force is still only pushing DOWN. Not left, not right, and the force of the air caused by the wing will never follow the car and any other way but down. When you go into a slide, the weight of the car moves. The more weight the car has (over the wheels without traction), the harder it will be to control that slide because those wheels will be succumb to more inertia. Downforce doesn't cause this effect at all. All it does is push down, which is good. Why do you think all the formula one cars, rail cars, rally cars, hell, even NASCAR has them? Because they create high speed stability, which you give up some aerodynamic drag to; but, those cars have so much power, that the loss of the top speed is worth the stability.

steve84GS TII

Snapshot,you should have called Mariah and brown-nosed a little,heh,heh!
I only got that wing from them a year ago.It took a little convincing from me that I didnt want their other wings which are "similar" to use their terms.They ended up having an outside guy make the wing from their old molds,apparantly no one there had made one and they were unsure if they could do it.

DAVID GRIMES

Nope. I print however many sheets with black ink on 24"x36" ( D scale ) 20# cadbond rolled paper. Then I take a complete set to a blueprint shop. They give me back the bluish paper with blue lines all sorted and stapled and end bound for 40-100 bucks for 4-10 sets.

Completed, published plans go for .30 to .40 per square foot, so the plans for a custom 5000 square foot home may bring 2000 dollars or more. 40-100 bucks is not too much overhead for professional presentation. I ain't got time to play printer, too. Not cost-effective.

trochoid

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I didn't want to post any pics yet, still want to do a write-up on the widebody install, so here is sneak peek with the Mariah pedistal whaletail.

This pic was taken during the test fit, before the install began.