Whacking the wing?
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I don't know guys. I guess the stock wing and the Kibort/Fan/Anderson/Lloyd/Venninger/Shaw rice wings havew grown on me. As Ed Hughes shot by Jim Mayzurk and me in his S4 at what appeared to be 100mph differential, I clearly thought to myself (and to Jim): That thing needs a ricer wing, it looks like a rocket but needs an updated wing.
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Mr Bailey, I can verify with absolute certainty that the downforce at 140mph on the rear wing itself is enough to clip the flip-up wing into place. That takes IMHO quite a strong DOWNFORCE
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One added "benefit" of the 911 ducktail was the tailights stayed cleaner ! The turbulent air tumbling down behind the tail ...That same effect dropped the CD from .41 to .40 so a bit over a 2 % difference with a spoiler that eliminated huge amounts of lift . So I wonder how much a spoiler which generates little downforce (elimination of lift) does for the CD ??
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Ok so 140 mph and about 30 lbs ....or less than 1 % of the weight of the car or equal to having 5 more gallons of gas in the tank .... The down force is insignificant !! But thanks for the data. Can we all agree that it has very little downforce ? It acts far more as a lip spoiler than an airfoil pushing the airflow up disrupting it so it tumbles down to fill the hole behind the car.
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Jim IIRC the optimal design creates just less than zero lift. In other words a successful design is not one that pushes the rear of the cr down so hard that it slows the car? Isn't the data point that we have no lift, as opposed to having massive downforce?
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Originally Posted by Sterling
I remember that the Devek White car made 200 MPH runs without the wing......
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Hey Roger wheres your black tie?? Danm nice car/wheels set you have there , I even like it without the wing, now about that wiper??? Stan
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Originally Posted by Sterling
well when they ran the open road race here in Texas I saw it, in person 2 years running without wing.....