diffuser fail

lmfao, what a noob

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Nice exhaust :)

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

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Originally Posted by Mike

Tidy car, shame the exhaust is in the wrong place tho lol

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i think you'll find the diffuser is in the wrong place, the exhaust looks fine to me....

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Originally Posted by mowgli

i think you'll find the diffuser is in the wrong place, the exhaust looks fine to me....

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lol

Diffuser looks good, its the car thats in the wrong place.... ie attached to the diffuser

uuuummm not sure lol looks like the exhaust is fake and just stuck on the bottom lol

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Originally Posted by markc20xe

uuuummm not sure lol looks like the exhaust is fake and just stuck on the bottom lol

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if that is the case its an even bigger fail

my guess is that they chopped the diffuser up to fit round the exhaust...

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Originally Posted by mowgli

my guess is that they chopped the diffuser up to fit round the exhaust...

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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:

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Originally Posted by alex_maris

whats wrong with it:confused:

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what's right with it lol

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Originally Posted by alex_maris

whats wrong with it:confused:

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i was scared to ask that one:thumb:

the diffuser should be underneath the exhaust to work properly :thumb:

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Originally Posted by mk1nova_rich

the diffuser should be underneath the exhaust to work properly :thumb:

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Originally Posted by Mike

Tidy car, shame the exhaust is in the wrong place tho lol

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:thumb:

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Originally Posted by mk1nova_rich

the diffuser should be underneath the exhaust to work properly :thumb:

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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.

cool everyday is a school day :thumb:

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Originally Posted by mowgli

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.

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also a very good point

And the owner has a rear wiper, boot lock & mudflaps he dont need, more weight there :S

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Originally Posted by mowgli

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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by mowgli

i reckon dars is a stripped out, lowered track car, & the diffuser will be running way lower...

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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.

Looks good though.


Looks over function?

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Originally Posted by Nova_Sean

Looks good though.


Looks over function?

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well it works on supercars..............

well it might have added 3kg or so of 'downforce' lol

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Originally Posted by Lee

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.

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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

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Originally Posted by Jack

Which, for all we know, the corsa may have done for the same reason.

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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.

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Originally Posted by Lee

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.

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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. ;)

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

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. :)

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Originally Posted by Dan Stanley

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

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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..

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Originally Posted by Benn

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..

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One of the guys who works at Performance Trim??