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Old 04-19-2018, 01:26 PM
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What chord length does that wing have? Looks pretty big. 14"? A 14"x84" wing would make some insane downforce I am sure.
yes max is 14x84 but 84 is just silly
​​​​​​​I'll be making a 12 chord just as soon as I make myself a splitter again someone stole mine
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84"....LOL...that'd be insane...haha. 72" is massive in person already.
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Originally Posted by K.I.T.T.
84"....LOL...that'd be insane...haha. 72" is massive in person already.
maybe I'll sell one to a drift guy or something lol

This is 78"
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That's 84"? Actually is right at the widebody...maybe a tad wider. I'm surprised by that. I have a 72" and it's slightly narrower than the custom widebody on a C5 I had in clay. That's pretty surprising. Looks good actually...lol. I think if it had a bit more subtle end planes it'd be pretty sweet...lol. I'm a bit of a drift guy though...my bad...haha.

I'm the guy that feels GM went too small on the C7 ZR1 wing...

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Originally Posted by K.I.T.T.
That's 84"? Actually is right at the widebody...maybe a tad wider. I'm surprised by that. I have a 72" and it's slightly narrower than the custom widebody on a C5 I had in clay. That's pretty surprising. Looks good actually...lol. I think if it had a bit more subtle end planes it'd be pretty sweet...lol. I'm a bit of a drift guy though...my bad...haha.

I'm the guy that feels GM went too small on the C7 ZR1 wing...
no that's 78" 84 looked ridiculous and probably wouldn't fit in my trailer
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Well I got to test my splitter and Wing combination and even with a giant tunneled splitter 5 degrees was a bit too much Wing angle with it up above the roofline and behind the car so I'm dialing it back to 2 degrees. I think I'm also going to drop it to just below the roofline. I haven't gotten a chance to test it at autocross speeds but I know it will work because that's how this airfoil was designed. The Reynolds numbers taken into consideration during the design process was around 300,000 so I know it will work at and below 60 miles per hour
with my new setup I took almost 3 seconds off of my lap time at Thompson Speedway I went from a 1:16.6 to a 1:13.8

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Wow, that's significant time right there.
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Can you still open rear deck? It looks great, like the bumper mounting hardware
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Can you still open rear deck? It looks great, like the bumper mounting hardware
yes I can. Even after I lowered the uppers it still clears.
I like this hardware better but still need to work on the upright design. I don't really like the way it looks.
what do you guys think?
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It's definitely function over beauty on those uprights...lol.
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Originally Posted by K.I.T.T.
It's definitely function over beauty on those uprights...lol.
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