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Who actually makes the wing and brackets for the C8 racecar? Ive search and come up with nothing. Not sure if it’s a GM, the race team exclusive, or other.
Even if you could track one down, I am not sure how you would securely mount it to a street Corvette. Where it appears to mount will be on the rear hatch. That wing would overwhelm the stock struts, and the hatch may not support whatever downforce it would produce, And it may flex enough to reduce the chassis loading it would produce. Race cars normally have wings attach to the chassis or other solid structure attached to the chassis.
Even if you could track one down, I am not sure how you would securely mount it to a street Corvette. Where it appears to mount will be on the rear hatch. That wing would overwhelm the stock struts, and the hatch may not support whatever downforce it would produce, And it may flex enough to reduce the chassis loading it would produce. Race cars normally have wings attach to the chassis or other solid structure attached to the chassis.
I agree. I’m just curious. I’ve seen it in person at the Petit Le Mans. I know it’s chassis mounted. I’m sure spring rates and shocks come into play. Along with added front pressure. LG Motorsports makes a chassis mounted version for street version. It requires certain counter measures also. I really just like knowing all I can about cars. Especially this car since I’m waiting. The C8 R wing brackets IMO are sharp.
This is nice also being a track guy. I most likely will end up with this for track duty. The C8 R wing and brackets are so nice. It is a big wing even for myself and my experience. I’m sure the C8 R wing is dry carbon and $6K plus wing.
Yeah, the C8.R wing is definitely mounted to the chassis of the car, but it's also mounted to a bar that doesn't exist in an actual C8. It'd make more sense to remove the rear bumper cover and the rear bumper bar so that you could attach a spoiler to the rear using the mounting points for the rear bumper bar. That's how it's done on the Lambos and Audi R8's that you see with chassis-mounted wings. The concept of leverage applies to spoilers the same way it applies to wrenches, so the further back you mount the spoiler, the more downforce it will exert on the rear tires. That also opens the door to new exhaust and diffuser options. You could dump the exhaust higher up and straight out the back, then have a custom diffuser that spans the width of the car. Here's a well-known and widely hated Huracan with a rear-mounted wing and relocated exhaust. It's on the extreme side of things, but the functionality is unparalleled.
If you want to forego any suspension changes that may be required when increasing downforce so much, you could even mount the spoiler directly to the upper control arms
If aesthetics matter more to you, wait for the Z06 to come out; I bet APR or ACS will make mounting brackets for the Stingray that use the same location as the Z06, and there may be some spoilers that are designed to allow the rear hatch to open fully, similar the the C7 ZTK spoiler.
As far as I know we are the only people making a frame mounted rear wing. If you are using the car on the road course you'll need a fairly large front splitter to balance out the wing, otherwise you're going to push like crazy. Our uprights don't have the center cut out and don't go as far back. We built it to fit within SCCA rules that the wing cannot go back further than the body work or higher than the roofline, the C8R is further back because the body work goes further back due to the massive rear diffuser. To install ours you will need to cut your hatch.
I have the LG Motorsports wing waiting to be installed. Excited about it but we are also trying to come up with a splitter option as we wait for LG's splitter to be available.
I'll post some pics once we go ahead and install it.
I have the LG Motorsports wing waiting to be installed. Excited about it but we are also trying to come up with a splitter option as we wait for LG's splitter to be available.
I'll post some pics once we go ahead and install it.
Nice. I’d like to see pics of how the cuts have to be made for the brackets?
Pratt and Miller make the c5-c8 factory race car parts. Bring your big boy wallet, i wanted a fuel cell to fit in the factory c6 location, was told by the maker of the cell I would have to go through Pratt and Miller, 10k for the cell and foam, no brackets, no pumps, no way!
As far as I know we are the only people making a frame mounted rear wing. If you are using the car on the road course you'll need a fairly large front splitter to balance out the wing, otherwise you're going to push like crazy. Our uprights don't have the center cut out and don't go as far back. We built it to fit within SCCA rules that the wing cannot go back further than the body work or higher than the roofline, the C8R is further back because the body work goes further back due to the massive rear diffuser. To install ours you will need to cut your hatch.
Have you seen the new GT R Black series? They trunklid-mount the rear spoiler, but they have chassis-mounted blocks/reinforcements that comes through the trunk and the rear spoiler makes contact with those blocks when the trunk is closed. Which means you don't have to cut anything to have a chassis-mounted rear spoiler, and the wing doesn't have to be fixed in place.
Have you seen the new GT R Black series? They trunklid-mount the rear spoiler, but they have chassis-mounted blocks/reinforcements that comes through the trunk and the rear spoiler makes contact with those blocks when the trunk is closed. Which means you don't have to cut anything to have a chassis-mounted rear spoiler, and the wing doesn't have to be fixed in place.
Quite cool.
I hadn't until you mentioned it. Beautifully designed, the only issue with doing that aftermarket is that you'd have to have a horizontal structure in between the hatch and the wing and I can't see that whole upright system looking good in something other than carbon which means it'd probably be a 10k wing/upright package. Not trying to knock it, I love it, just may be cost prohibitive in an aftermarket sense.
If you are using the car on the road course you'll need a fairly large front splitter to balance out the wing,...
I would like a big wing but I am really concerned about it unsettling the factory tuned car at speed and killing myself.
This wont be a Sunday drive to car show rig. The cars limit will be pushed regularly and i need it to be stable.
Do you guys plan on making front aero to balance out the wing?
