07-08-2008, 04:00 AM
Evan Wrote:The irony is that those bullshit canards drag off at least 10mph at the end of a straight. A couple guys who race tried them on their race cars and got severely lower top speeds and slower lap times.
Unless you have a multimillion dollar windtunnel and a proper engineering/fabrication department, you're just a punk poseur trying to look like a JGTC/DTM/Whatever touring car.
I have to ask, what type of cars were these tried on? Miatas with very little power, or cars that need more traction the ground on high speed sweepers with a lot of power?
There has been a lot of debate on cars with a lot of horsepower on speed on the straightaways compared to stability through sweepers. I know my car gets light at around 130-140 on summit's straightaway, and I get VERY light between turn 9-10 at summit, definitely suggesting the need for both more front and rear downforce. And pretty much 3,4,8,9,10 I need a LOT more downforce and I could pull a lot more speed in and out of those turns.
To me (I am not a mechanical engineer keep in mind), I want to find a balance between stability and speed, just as I would take lessons from many grand touring cars. Yeah it may increase drag, but I do need that extra shit keeping me on the ground. If I actually hit the throttle hard and kept on it till the braking point from 9-10, when I hit that hill, the back end would DEFINITELY come around on me. In a miata, I can see how this would be a much different issue.
Hopefully a simple splitter up front and boxing in the rear end will reduce the lift up front and rear that I wont need anything ugly or insane.