My attempt @ more front aero. How can i make these better?
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After thinking about this for several months, for us South Texas guys. While looking at your first pictures it looked fairly good. Now that its boxed in I see some problems. The whole point of this canard/spat is to get air to ramp up over the tire smoothly and keep it out of the wheel well. It seems that you might have traded an abrupt tire for an abrupt spat. The front of the spat is now the aero obstruction. Blow the smoke from dead on in front of the tire and see what it does on the lower portion.
Love your work/vid sorry to be a downer.
Edit: Where did you get the material for the canard? What is that?
Love your work/vid sorry to be a downer.
Edit: Where did you get the material for the canard? What is that?
Last edited by jacob300zx; 10-21-2010 at 10:35 AM.
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like it. i think it looks like its working. as far as wing, doesn't really show anything spraying it right in front like that. you need to see what happens after the air goes over your hardtop. as far as angle of attack, i attached small brightly colored yarn strings all over the wing. since i didn't have anyone to help, i attached my gopro to my back window and filmed what the yarn did at 4 different levels of attack. watched the video, it was at max downforce at pos. 3 and started stalling at pos. 4. you could do the same for the canards if your worried about drag.
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Great idea though. I'll have to try that in the future.
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That DIY wind tunnel is a good idea. I don't think it illustrates the exhaust air coming out of the radiator very well though because yeah a large amount of smoke left through the wheel well. but correct me if I'm wrong but because you were only pushing air into the bumper opening and not across the whole front end and over the hood, wouldn't the Bernoulli effect of the hood vent not work because there is little to no air traveling over the hood to create that vacuum to cause extraction.
Great idea though. I'll have to try that in the future.
Great idea though. I'll have to try that in the future.
As for the hood, I couldn't tell you a thing about the Bernoulli effect, but ill do some reading up on it and see what I can find.
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We did not, the fan couldn't generate enough flow to really see whats going on over the hardtop. I run a factory rear glass on an oem hardtop for a few reasons. Main reason is because I like to wash the car on a regular basis, and having the rear glass and side windows in makes its 10x easier. Second reason is because I can't get myself to remove a perfectly good oem hardtop w/ oem glass. No one locally has a silver top with even remotely the same paint and busted glass and wanting to trade.
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Instead of starting a new aero thread - thought I'd tag it with yours -
IF you could replace the front bumper with flare combinations for better track aero, what aftermarket combinations would you go with? I've been thinnking of an altered Bomex front bumper with some Autokonexion N2 flares - with some canards.
I'm dumb when it comes to aero, but would the best bumper drop straight down from the support and not recess back in like our oem bumpers? - as much as I hate to say it, like the wizdom bumper, but with a MUCH smaller opening
IF you could replace the front bumper with flare combinations for better track aero, what aftermarket combinations would you go with? I've been thinnking of an altered Bomex front bumper with some Autokonexion N2 flares - with some canards.
I'm dumb when it comes to aero, but would the best bumper drop straight down from the support and not recess back in like our oem bumpers? - as much as I hate to say it, like the wizdom bumper, but with a MUCH smaller opening