I've noticed a cropping up of misc. kevlar splitters, canards, and diffusers for the FD. They are usually seen on chaste white's and they look raw. My FC is white and I wouldn't mind locating a kevlar splitter or something for it, but I can't find anything. Anybody know a manuf. that's making this stuff??? Thanks.

 

you know kevlar is kind of a orange color and a lot of people say they dont like how it looks unpainted.

A diffuser requires a smooth bottom of the car to work... are you sure you can even go fast enough to use that areo stuff?

 

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Kevlar was made by DuPont originally, and it's yellow in color. In most applications it's arranged in a yellow and black weave.

I'm not big into the cosmetics but. And, I'm not looking for a diffuser (it was just an example, because I know they make them for FD's). Just some winglets or a splitter.

Also, the bottom of the car doesn't have to be smooth (the Jag supercar I can't remember it's name right now), has one, and it doesn't have a full undertray. It just works better if it's flat. However in addition, it may pose a huge risk to run an underslab on a street car. Everybody's seen the footage of that Porsche GT1 that took off at Road Atlanta, and the Benz at Le Mans. It's like when you take a piece of 8x11 paper and throw it like a frisbee at a flat surface; it usually comes back up and flips over.

And, realistically, who ever goes quick enough to get benefit from any of the aero bits? Not many, but there are still a lot of stock spoilers out there.

 

you know what, i totally forgot that you could get aramid in othere colors. Now that i think of it, iv seen red too.. If all your going for is visual appeal, they also make 'hybrid' fabrics that consist of CF and kevlar. so you can have the kevlar running one way, and the CF weaving through it the other... looks pretty snazzy.

well, an airdamn can help, even if you dont go very fast. if you wanted to take it a step farther you could make a venturi with the front spoiler. dont worry, you wont 'blow over' in a street car, at least not in any FC

todays le manns cars and virtually every form of auto racing has rules stating that the area between the front and rear axels has to be flat. But do you know what this is preventing? what the rule is banning? Its banning something called 'Ground effects'. NO, all you gangsta wanabes. this is not neon lights under the car, or some cosmetic bodywork that makes your car look lower then it is. Its basicly making the bottom of the car look like an up-side down airplane wing. If used corretly, its amazing. It can make a lot of downforce with very little drag. I believe it was first used on a car by either Brabham or Lotus on a Grand Prix car in the late 60's. I remeber they asked why their cars where going so fast and the lead areo engineer for the team Replied "we found something for nothing". Ground effect cars are also called ventui cars. So if your ever watching speed vision and they refer to those crazy ventri cars, now you know.

Really, a diffuser is just one of the parts of a venturi. And on todays le manns cars, i think they even limit the size of those. a venture works by accelerating the air under the car and having it open gradually to a larger area. That opening to a larger area part is called the diffuser. So they are acutally trying to get some air under the car. Having flat bottom cars that go 200 mph and weigh 1500lbs is going to be hard to keep on the ground, even harder when they try to use the hole underside of a car as a giant venuri cuz they cant profile it. the cars angle of pitch becomes very sensitive with the flat bottms.
we shouldnt have to worry about that.

I think what your looking for is an aftermarket front bumper.

 

very interesting stuff. where could I learn morre about this?

 

I work with kevlar, send me an email at carbonfiber@fc3s.org if youre interested.

 

HHHHMMMM another pipe dream i hope not as i've been looking for the same thing.

 

Thanks MzSpd7, it won't be until at least the spring, but I'll set aside this thread, in hopes that one day I will know what money looks like again.

 

they made a SE model in 89? In the Series 5, they dropped all the SE models. There was only GXL, GTU, GTUs, and TurboII.