Carbon aero parts - advice needed
Discussion
This is mainly aimed at Tux, but anyone feel free to chip in.
My brother wants to help me as a birthday present buy an aero mod for my car.
I cannot fit a splitter as the car wont get into my garage. BUT, i am keen to make the front more planted. Best option? The carbon front sill extensions? or the Canards / Dive planes?
Happy to wait for Tux's dive planes or maybe the ones built by the company that caused a stir in the last thread. But what makes the most difference and does lacking a splitter really affect anything that much? I have a standard one but just dont use it.
Keen to keep the front end feeling planted at 100mph + on the road as it does at 60mph.
Advice please.
Cheers
Lawrence
Hi Lawrence , front end lift is created by air pressure under the front wheel arch so I would start with carbon infil panels , I would also remove the front quarter panels and cut air relief holes to allow air out of the wheel arch . You will need to cut the infil panels down a bit as the are designed to work with the splitter , and front canards will no doubt help !!
Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'm going to take my car into see a Mr Pilbeam of Pilbeam Racing , I'm hoping he can give me some pointers on canards and other aero mods . Will wait and see :-)
New dampers , a bit more camber and corner weight and Geo will all help the feel and handling .
Hope this helps Tux
Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'm going to take my car into see a Mr Pilbeam of Pilbeam Racing , I'm hoping he can give me some pointers on canards and other aero mods . Will wait and see :-)
New dampers , a bit more camber and corner weight and Geo will all help the feel and handling .
Hope this helps Tux
Hi Lawrence , front end lift is created by air pressure under the front wheel arch so I would start with carbon infil panels , I would also remove the front quarter panels and cut air relief holes to allow air out of the wheel arch . You will need to cut the infil panels down a bit as the are designed to work with the splitter , and front canards will no doubt help !!
Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'm going to take my car into see a Mr Pilbeam of Pilbeam Racing , I'm hoping he can give me some pointers on canards and other aero mods . Will wait and see :-)
New dampers , a bit more camber and corner weight and Geo will all help the feel and handling .
Hope this helps Tux
Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'm going to take my car into see a Mr Pilbeam of Pilbeam Racing , I'm hoping he can give me some pointers on canards and other aero mods . Will wait and see :-)
New dampers , a bit more camber and corner weight and Geo will all help the feel and handling .
Hope this helps Tux
TuxMan said:
Hi Lawrence , front end lift is created by air pressure under the front wheel arch so I would start with carbon infil panels , I would also remove the front quarter panels and cut air relief holes to allow air out of the wheel arch . You will need to cut the infil panels down a bit as the are designed to work with the splitter , and front canards will no doubt help !!
Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'm going to take my car into see a Mr Pilbeam of Pilbeam Racing , I'm hoping he can give me some pointers on canards and other aero mods . Will wait and see :-)
New dampers , a bit more camber and corner weight and Geo will all help the feel and handling .
Hope this helps Tux
Cheers Simon. I have witnessed first hand the effect of new dampers and camber on your 'greenfly' and i concur that this has a seriously beneficial effect on handling, but i am not at that stage yet! Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'm going to take my car into see a Mr Pilbeam of Pilbeam Racing , I'm hoping he can give me some pointers on canards and other aero mods . Will wait and see :-)
New dampers , a bit more camber and corner weight and Geo will all help the feel and handling .
Hope this helps Tux
I think you are right the carbon infils are first up, spoke to Reverie yesterday so might order some soon. Are they easy to fit or do i need someone who really knows what they are doing? Maybe i could order a smaller splitter and see if the garage can cope with that.
Think i will hold off on canards until you make some progress, interested to see what they will look like.
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