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Just so everyone knows, this car is going to be street driven by Luke. He'll probably do some drag racing and lapping days with it.
He and Garth built the wing because they could, its not going to hurt the way the car handles or performs.
Keep an eye out for the engine build thread for this car....
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Nice work. If that doesn't stick your *** to the ground, nothing will... except one of these undersided spoilers...
I'd love to replicate something like this for my FC... I haven't done the body kit thing yet but plan to someday, and I think an underside rear spoiler would really look cool below a custom bumber.... totally smooths our the rear end appearance of the car.
I'd love to replicate something like this for my FC... I haven't done the body kit thing yet but plan to someday, and I think an underside rear spoiler would really look cool below a custom bumber.... totally smooths our the rear end appearance of the car.
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In the link I posted, if you can get it to work and read the articles, you'll find a couple on spoilers, where they did CFD modelling on a NASCAR model. They found that at a flat angle they got more lift than without a spoiler. They did get less drag that way though, which is why this style of spoiler is good for drag racing, because it lowers drag. By the time you're going fast enough for downforce to really come into play, your wheel torque will be much diminished by being in a higer gear, so traction isn't as much of an issue any more, so downforce really doesn't seem like a good strategy for a drag car anyway.
Diffusers work by "pulling" the air out from under the car to create low pressure there, which causes the downforce, and since it's at the end of the line it requires that the upstream stuff be good too for it to be good.
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Yes, it is designed to take advantage of the venturi effect.
Spoiler looks good and I hope you get the results you desire. It's cool to see projects like this.
If it were me though, I'd take cues from the time attack cars. They have wings high up to take advantage of less molested air, which has already been mentioned.
Spoiler looks good and I hope you get the results you desire. It's cool to see projects like this.
If it were me though, I'd take cues from the time attack cars. They have wings high up to take advantage of less molested air, which has already been mentioned.
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I knew some of you drag racer guys would like this!
Unfortunatly we do not have an RX-3 available to mock something up.
Cut the back of your car off and ship it up here lol
Unfortunatly we do not have an RX-3 available to mock something up.
Cut the back of your car off and ship it up here lol
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from the builder to anyone that cares
If you would like to take advantages of our shop and have one of these wings made drop us a line and we will make a custom one for you. Also are looking into alot of custom made parts for drag and street/track. thanks Garth
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hey guys just had sometime to powdercoat the wing last night. Theres a couple of spots on the wing that i didn't like so i'll be powdercoating it again this week plus the bolts that hold the wing to the body didn't get powdercoated so still have to powdercoat that.
take a look
take a look
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