RE Amemiya GT II spoiler opinions
03-14-05, 01:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Bigretardhead
okay, forget the "occasional" part. say you race your car once a week, and still want to drive it on the street occasionally.
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.
...just because your car see's the street doesn't mean it has crappy suspension...
definetly not true. 2 of the only people in the thread that actually have one bought it for pure function.
...high quality wings are designed to have very little drag for the amount of downforce they produce. there is no way the RE wing is going to have a lot of drag, since it was designed for, and is used on their race car...
03-14-05, 03:46 AM
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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04-09-05, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by kenn_chan
The whole rice or not rice has gone to far, most of the people yapping rice simply yap it casue they can't afford it. Rice is a dodge neon with a 4" muffler and a TRd sticker on one side and a rally art on the other. ya alls need to get off of the rice hollering bandwagon and get laid!
kenn
I like Rice, my wife likes rice, we eat it at leat 2 time a day!
kenn
I like Rice, my wife likes rice, we eat it at leat 2 time a day!
