You're creating a situation to suit your argument. You are completely right of course, I'm sure that happens, but honestly, how many people out there actually do that? Not just in this forum but everywhere? I see cars with these sorts of wing nearly every day, and I know damn well that almost none of them have ever seen a race track.

You can make all the arguments in the world in favour of this wing (and they'd probably all be quite correct), but I think we all know that the number of people who put these on street cars for no reason other than to attract other people's attention vastly outnumber the number of people who have street cars that regularly benefit from having one. Sad but true.

Don't confuse quality with tune. There's a big difference between good road suspension and good track suspension. Good track suspension (generally stiff and low) = bad road suspension, even if it's high quality. Sure you can get a reasonable compromise, but it comes back to how effective that wing's going to be with compomised suspension.

Two people in a thread means nothing. Like I said above, I see these things daily...

With a wing sticking out in free air like that there is no such thing as low drag and high downforce. If F1 aerodynamicists can't break this fundemental rule of physics, I highly doubt RE-A can. Most serious race cars have terrible drag, because they're optimised for downforce. Downforce always causes drag.

well, I agree.
however, most of these cars have the crappy APC wings(and stuff like that), that will probably fall off before it actually helps. I think most of the people that are actually going to pay enough $$$ for a authentic RE wing are going to have a lot of other parts on their car, whether its for show, or go, but it'll most likely be a pretty well built car for whatever it is designed, IMHO.


no, I wasn't talking about a compromise. I mean a pretty much full race suspension for the street. only compromising would be your body. lol. the car would perform terribly on the street (as far as comfort and convenience (sp?)), but
its actually except for on some really rough roads, its really not too bad. and if you don't drive the car on the street all the time, then its not bad at all.

sorry, maybe I wasn't quite clear. all I was really trying to say is, if its creating lots of drag on the car, then its also going to be adding a bit of downforce. like, you aren't going to have a situation where the wing would be effeting your gas mileage, and not at all helping with braking or turning - you won't get the bad effects without getting the good effects.

okay, to sum up, all I'm trying to do is show that there are reasons for people actually using a wing like this for advantages, so its not completely bogus for someone to have it on a car that might be on the street sometimes. It is, however, rediculous for someone to come in and blast everything as "oh thats rice", when there could be some very good reasons for having it. I mean, every single thing you could do to your car can easily be considered "rice" by the definition everyone seems to use these days.

Dude, just buy the wing before these guys all implode.

well personaly i like the original turbo 2 wing or just plain stocker

If you know the history of the word rice, then you know in all actuality we're all considered ricers because we drive asian imports.

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Thank you for resurrecting a thread that's 3.5 years old...


-Ted