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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 03:52 PM
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Vette flip trunk mod

can this mod:

http://www.freecarkits.com/floatingfliptrunk.htm

be done on the vert trunk?
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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 03:56 PM
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With money anything is possible...but this begs the question....W H Y ? ? ?
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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 03:59 PM
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Wtfrice?!
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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 04:03 PM
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please dont
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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 04:05 PM
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i guess it could.....
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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 04:06 PM
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massive
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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 04:07 PM
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if you do that might as well swap in a v8. the triangles will not stand for that.
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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 04:07 PM
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I'm so confused with this idea, as a idea why don't you spend it on something that will help your car performace wise or cosmetic. That just looks like someone trying to be different and you will look stupid
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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 04:07 PM
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I guess thats the new rice craze, make **** look broken. Ppl these days, geeez. I found another link to that.. http://www.POSricermods.com/gaytrunk...ouraflamer.com

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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 04:17 PM
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I guess thats the new rice craze, make **** look broken. Ppl these days, geeez. I found another link to that.. http://www.POSricermods.com/gaytrunk...ouraflamer.com
No kidding. When I first clicked on that link I thought the car had gotten into an accident and the trunk was fubared. Took me a second to realize that it was done on purpose
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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 08:50 PM
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lol what is there to possibly to gain from that? in my oppinion ... if i saw u open ur trunk like that ide prolly think its broken because for some failed attempt at coolness on ur part
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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 09:03 PM
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You guys are completely missing it. The idea of the trunk being able to lean one way or the other is to help with the lateral drag coefficient of the installed wing in heavy cornering applications. Conversely, you could therefore use it to counter-drop the opposite direction when tracking the car for additional grip on off-camber inverse turns. Think of terms of the new jet fighters where the exhaust can be angled to affect turns, cornering, climb and so forth. With this mod on your car, given you have a wing big enough to lift the rear off the ground, those who drfit or track thier cars would have a huge advantage, especially ones with front wheel drive. Or imagine if you wanted to drive in reverse, think in terms of canards on some planes, the cornering ability again backing up would be incredible. The advantages of this mod are so great this thread really needs to be stickied. In fact I think I'm going to come up with a new wing design to attach to my hatch and hook up some hydraulics to it so I can raise and lower the hatch with the wing attached to give my car some *bling* and dorifto drag road course advantages. I may need to come up with a speed brake like fighter jets use also, could use the sunroof area for that...

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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 09:06 PM
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Hey, that's so cool! Now you have like 1/10 the trunk opening! Mega-sweet! Someone problem got rear-ended, decided it looked cool, and marketed it as a product.
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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 09:27 PM
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they had it installed on a neon for a reason
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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 09:39 PM
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you guys scared him away... lol
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Old Apr 16, 2006 | 09:41 PM
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lol thats the uglyist thing ive ever seen
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Old Apr 17, 2006 | 01:37 AM
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Old Apr 18, 2006 | 01:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Turbo II
You guys are completely missing it. The idea of the trunk being able to lean one way or the other is to help with the lateral drag coefficient of the installed wing in heavy cornering applications. Conversely, you could therefore use it to counter-drop the opposite direction when tracking the car for additional grip on off-camber inverse turns. Think of terms of the new jet fighters where the exhaust can be angled to affect turns, cornering, climb and so forth. With this mod on your car, given you have a wing big enough to lift the rear off the ground, those who drfit or track thier cars would have a huge advantage, especially ones with front wheel drive. Or imagine if you wanted to drive in reverse, think in terms of canards on some planes, the cornering ability again backing up would be incredible. The advantages of this mod are so great this thread really needs to be stickied. In fact I think I'm going to come up with a new wing design to attach to my hatch and hook up some hydraulics to it so I can raise and lower the hatch with the wing attached to give my car some *bling* and dorifto drag road course advantages. I may need to come up with a speed brake like fighter jets use also, could use the sunroof area for that...
holy **** that is hardcore.... i suddenly want one,,,,
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Old Apr 18, 2006 | 07:41 AM
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God awful
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