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Utter tosh.
Wing is there to add weight over the rear axle at high speed. You can have the biggest wing in the universe on your RWD car, and it'll do precious little until 60+mph. It needs airflow.
Trust me, at 60mph, the Four does not have a traction problem. It doesn't have one at 0mph either.
What the wing does is add weight via downforce at speed to keep the back end planted for the fast sweepers, which a fwd car can benefit from. Not as much as a RWD car - simply because it needs less grip from the rear tyres as it's not trying to apply power through them. It is, effectively, only dealing with an imbalance on a single axis (unless the driver is on the brakes).
I don't particually like aerodynamics on road cars for a very simply reason. If I lose the back of a car with a big wing, the wing stops working (no airflow over it when sideways). If I've lost the back because I've exceeded grip on the back axle, as she rotates around the downforce stops, and I've even less grip to try to regain control. It's not nice.
I'm simply not good enough to deal with that, so I choose to run with a spoiler to prvent rear end lift, but not actively add downforce.
QUOTE(malpaso @ Mar 15, 2006 - 6:33 AM) [snapback]407831[/snapback]
> extra big spoiler (any one) on front-wheel drive car looks IN MY HUMBLE OPINION stupid...
(spoiler trust function for NON back-wheel drive has no sense, is just in addition weight)
(spoiler trust function for NON back-wheel drive has no sense, is just in addition weight)
Utter tosh.
Wing is there to add weight over the rear axle at high speed. You can have the biggest wing in the universe on your RWD car, and it'll do precious little until 60+mph. It needs airflow.
Trust me, at 60mph, the Four does not have a traction problem. It doesn't have one at 0mph either.
What the wing does is add weight via downforce at speed to keep the back end planted for the fast sweepers, which a fwd car can benefit from. Not as much as a RWD car - simply because it needs less grip from the rear tyres as it's not trying to apply power through them. It is, effectively, only dealing with an imbalance on a single axis (unless the driver is on the brakes).
I don't particually like aerodynamics on road cars for a very simply reason. If I lose the back of a car with a big wing, the wing stops working (no airflow over it when sideways). If I've lost the back because I've exceeded grip on the back axle, as she rotates around the downforce stops, and I've even less grip to try to regain control. It's not nice.
I'm simply not good enough to deal with that, so I choose to run with a spoiler to prvent rear end lift, but not actively add downforce.
JDM ST205Blitz Spec NUR Exhaust, somewhere over $1000Needing another one 18000 miles later, bloody annoying.