Porsche Motorsports Front Spoiler
06-01-2009 | 09:52 AM
#31
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My car was the GT3 using the Cup spoiler at VIR last week.
Tonight, I get the car out for a sundown milk run. Three miles down the road, as I'm boxed in with a few cars going around 55, the guy in front passes over and reveals a bit of a tree trunk in the road. With nowhere to go and a big duelie on my rear, I hit it dead center. Another splitter bites the dust. It was on for about a month. Ugh! Back to the original style I have on hand.
Tonight, I get the car out for a sundown milk run. Three miles down the road, as I'm boxed in with a few cars going around 55, the guy in front passes over and reveals a bit of a tree trunk in the road. With nowhere to go and a big duelie on my rear, I hit it dead center. Another splitter bites the dust. It was on for about a month. Ugh! Back to the original style I have on hand.
06-03-2009 | 02:35 PM
#33
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sorry for what may be a stupid question, but just how much more downforce is more downforce?
the track i go to is a tiny, relatively low-speed track compared to what most of you are probably used to-- speed at the end of the main straight is just over 110-115 mph (so its not a very long straight obviously), and speeds thru the two brief sweeping sections are maybe 80+ mph...
at these speeds, would there be a noticeable benefit from a splitter and adjustment of the rear wing?
below what sort of speeds do you NOT get any benefit from more downforce? like, i assume a 2nd gear hairpin is way way too slow for there to be a difference...
thanks in advance!
the track i go to is a tiny, relatively low-speed track compared to what most of you are probably used to-- speed at the end of the main straight is just over 110-115 mph (so its not a very long straight obviously), and speeds thru the two brief sweeping sections are maybe 80+ mph...
at these speeds, would there be a noticeable benefit from a splitter and adjustment of the rear wing?
below what sort of speeds do you NOT get any benefit from more downforce? like, i assume a 2nd gear hairpin is way way too slow for there to be a difference...
thanks in advance!
06-04-2009 | 12:17 AM
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06-04-2009 | 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by hesperus
sorry for what may be a stupid question, but just how much more downforce is more downforce?
the track i go to is a tiny, relatively low-speed track compared to what most of you are probably used to-- speed at the end of the main straight is just over 110-115 mph (so its not a very long straight obviously), and speeds thru the two brief sweeping sections are maybe 80+ mph...
at these speeds, would there be a noticeable benefit from a splitter and adjustment of the rear wing?
at these speeds, would there be a noticeable benefit from a splitter and adjustment of the rear wing?
below what sort of speeds do you NOT get any benefit from more downforce? like, i assume a 2nd gear hairpin is way way too slow for there to be a difference...
06-05-2009 | 04:20 PM
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That is all my GT3 customers use. GT3s get most of there cooling through the bumper and just a little under the car (better aero over the 996 Cups with the big scoops underneath the car) PM does make a 997 Cup verison with ducts, but they recently stopped bringing them into the country as no one bought them...
06-05-2009 | 04:23 PM
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06-05-2009 | 08:55 PM
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they turned out to be exactly the same as the street ducts ... which I called
GMG on ... they claimed that's what Motorsport NA gave them...
- Larry
06-05-2009 | 09:03 PM
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F***king typical of GMG ... of course those are the street parts ...
06-05-2009 | 10:19 PM
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Nope. The motorsport parts are way deeper, Kenny at Conway Autoworks just showed them to me side by side the other day. I haven't used them yet, but I would wager some serious money (if data was by thermocouple) that those are worth a lot more cooling than a couple of holes in the front motorsport lip.