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lmfao, what a noob
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Angus Closier
16-07-10, 05:28 PM
Another corsa sport fail.....
and a blown diffuser too.......not sure it looks cool with the mudflaps though
Tidy car, shame the exhaust is in the wrong place tho lol
Tidy car, shame the exhaust is in the wrong place tho lol
i think you'll find the diffuser is in the wrong place, the exhaust looks fine to me....
i think you'll find the diffuser is in the wrong place, the exhaust looks fine to me....
lol
Diffuser looks good, its the car thats in the wrong place.... ie attached to the diffuser
markc20xe
16-07-10, 06:28 PM
uuuummm not sure lol looks like the exhaust is fake and just stuck on the bottom lol
uuuummm not sure lol looks like the exhaust is fake and just stuck on the bottom lolif that is the case its an even bigger fail
my guess is that they chopped the diffuser up to fit round the exhaust...
my guess is that they chopped the diffuser up to fit round the exhaust...lmfao i so hope they did
so apart from being a glorified bumper trim, and about a foot too high, whats up with it????
whats wrong with it:confused:
mk1nova_rich
16-07-10, 07:32 PM
whats wrong with it:confused:
what's right with it lol
16v Nova Kev
16-07-10, 07:36 PM
whats wrong with it:confused:
i was scared to ask that one:thumb:
mk1nova_rich
16-07-10, 07:37 PM
the diffuser should be underneath the exhaust to work properly :thumb:
the diffuser should be underneath the exhaust to work properly :thumb:
Tidy car, shame the exhaust is in the wrong place tho lol
:thumb:
the diffuser should be underneath the exhaust to work properly :thumb:
A diffuser is absolutely no use unless it is used with clever underfloor aerodynamics to create downforce.......
thus the corsa one is going to slow the car down simply because it adds weight to it.
16v Nova Kev
16-07-10, 07:42 PM
cool everyday is a school day :thumb:
mk1nova_rich
16-07-10, 07:47 PM
A diffuser is absolutely no use unless it is used with clever underfloor aerodynamics to create downforce.......
thus the corsa one is going to slow the car down simply because it adds weight to it.
also a very good point
And the owner has a rear wiper, boot lock & mudflaps he dont need, more weight there :S
A diffuser is absolutely no use unless it is used with clever underfloor aerodynamics to create downforce.......
thus the corsa one is going to slow the car down simply because it adds weight to it.
So the Dar's is wrong too? The one of the Corsa is a Lotus one but remade in Carbon Fibre.
i reckon dars is a stripped out, lowered track car, & the diffuser will be running way lower...
but unless a saloon car is running a front splitter, an engine undertray, & the rest of the floor isn't tidied up, then a rear diffuser is not going to do a huge amount, no matter how good it looks
It's there because it looks good to 95% of people, do the 'diffuser' style cutouts in a lot of modern cars actually do anything or do they look good? At least he went quite a bit further than that.
i reckon dars is a stripped out, lowered track car, & the diffuser will be running way lower...
So? You said it only works with a flat floor and bits, which means Dar's doesn't work. I'm not being pickie here but you see my point?
Air will tech get to both no matter what the hight is...
Dars wasn't installed to add any major downforce, it was to stop the rear bumper acting like a sail due to the removal of the spare wheel well. it has seemed to add a degree of stability as well though.
Never thought about the bumper acting like an air brake, mine must do that too...
when burgo did that thread about splitters & diffusers, i alluded to an article i read about saloon car racing.. one team could afford super duper internal foam tanks & the other couldn't, the one that could suffered with instability through high speed carners, and the other team simply fibre glassed round theirs, and the rear end was way smoother & they were faster round the track. they also fitted a sort of vee shaped upside down gurney flap just in front of the rear wheels on a fwd car & it held the back end down way better because it created a low pressure area behind the vee. this subject is fascinating, but very expensive to play with.
Nova_Sean
16-07-10, 10:31 PM
Looks good though.
Looks over function?
Looks good though.
Looks over function?
well it works on supercars..............
well it might have added 3kg or so of 'downforce' lol
Dars wasn't installed to add any major downforce, it was to stop the rear bumper acting like a sail due to the removal of the spare wheel well.
Which, for all we know, the corsa may have done for the same reason.
Nova saloons have rear diffusers (well a wind break) as standard to stop air getting stuck in the large void between the spare wheel well and the rear panel
Which, for all we know, the corsa may have done for the same reason.
Doubtful, thats purely aesthetic. Stability from a lack of wheel well is not an issue on a road car unless its being driven like a complete tool.
Doubtful, thats purely aesthetic. Stability from a lack of wheel well is not an issue on a road car unless its being driven like a complete tool.
We are talking about a Corsa B tho :roll: lol
TBH its not that bad if youve seen some of the other stuff on cars at Billing. ;)
Dan Stanley
18-07-10, 03:44 AM
I think the guy just likes his carbon fibre. i was looking round that corsa at billing and he had a c.f airbox and scuttle panel which were pretty cool, as well as various other little c.f bits that were just decoration. The diffuser went all the way back to his rear beam iirc
Trendall
18-07-10, 06:05 AM
i have just been thinking the whole idea of the read diffuser is to increase down force well no matter what speed you are doing air will flow over the diffuser and provide to an extent downforce even tho it has things in the way to prevent it acting how it should or to its full potential it will always create down force just not enough to notice much change if any. but then again if it has no purpose at all apart from look then each to there own really. :)
I think the guy just likes his carbon fibre. i was looking round that corsa at billing and he had a c.f airbox and scuttle panel which were pretty cool, as well as various other little c.f bits that were just decoration. The diffuser went all the way back to his rear beam iirc
All the panels on the in side where CF too, the flat boot floor was Cf then covered with carpet. Everything had CF on it..
All the panels on the in side where CF too, the flat boot floor was Cf then covered with carpet. Everything had CF on it..
One of the guys who works at Performance Trim??
No think he works some where else, PT is down my way. Sure the guy with the Corsa isn't.
No think he works some where else, PT is down my way. Sure the guy with the Corsa isn't.
Dunno then :confused: more moneys worth of carbon then what the cars worth though lol lol
He does work with cf. I know that.
He does work with cf. I know that.
Ah thats why then. If you can make it you end up with it everywhere lol
Well I have anyway lol lol
I just seen.
lol lol theres a lot more to come yet Benn ;)
Dunno then :confused: more moneys worth of carbon then what the cars worth though lol lol
I think thats the same with most modified cars. Spend elevnty million pounds on them and there worth £4000 max!lol
If i worked with carbon fibre everyday my whole car would be covered in it, including a fake carbon splitter!;)
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