also a very good pointQuote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
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also a very good pointQuote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
And the owner has a rear wiper, boot lock & mudflaps he dont need, more weight there :S
So the Dar's is wrong too? The one of the Corsa is a Lotus one but remade in Carbon Fibre.Quote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
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.
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
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.
Looks good though.
Looks over function?