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N Sperlo SuperDork
2/21/12 9:43 a.m.

novaderrik wrote: ...and the wing is upside down from how it should be to provide downforce, which he says is cool because airplanes have their wings like that and they go way faster than 200mph..

F1 had it all wrong.

Unless.... This guy has a CRJ-900 engine mounted in the rear...

jrw1621 SuperDork
2/21/12 11:34 a.m.

EvanB wrote: How do bird house aerodynamics work?

An African Swallow bird house or a European Swallow bird house?

Raze SuperDork
2/21/12 1:10 p.m.

jrw1621 wrote:
EvanB wrote: How do bird house aerodynamics work?
An African Swallow bird house or a European Swallow bird house?

an African Swallow maybe...

JoeyM GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
2/21/12 1:26 p.m.

...he can grip it by the husk.

Hungary Bill GRM+ Memberand Reader
2/21/12 1:40 p.m.

So you're saying: If she weighs as much as a duck, she is made out of wood, and is therefore a witch?

mad_machine GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
2/21/12 1:41 p.m.

African or European Swallow

Knurled GRM+ Memberand Dork
2/21/12 5:09 p.m.

EvanB wrote: No it increases lift at high speed so there is more weight on the front wheels, everyone knows that.

No, it's so when you have your FWD set up suspension-wise to be able to turn at low speeds, you can use the rear spoiler(1) to lock the back end down so the car isn't massively scary at high speed.

It's like balancing jets vs. air bleeds. One thing has an effect everywhere, while the other only has an effect at one end of the curve.

I did get a massive kick over the Honda with the front wing at the rallycross nats... the course was not very fast, certainly well below the speed where aero could come into play, the car was way underpowered besides, and the kicker? It was a TINY wing. I do have... ideas... for wings, but if you look at what is used at autocross speeds ( looks to A Mod for influence ), you'd see that nothing out of the APC catalog is going to cut it. But first I'll need something with over 500hp so i can puch through the aerodynamic wall, and AWD so it can still do something useful before the aero can kick in. And variable geometry rocker-based suspension, so the suspension can work at low speeds and still not bottom out when there's 3000lb of downforce.