The windiest place in England today was...

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

In there...

[worty]

Not sure I agree with that . I had a tex mex last night with refried beans which was a big mistake
worty

so what was all that about then ?

[D_G]

No doubt....

On a Welsh hillside watching the WRC today..and with horizontal rain

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

worty said:

so what was all that about then ?

Parts testing. Some really nice stuff, that actually works!

[NickyTwoHats]

Tell us more please Phil

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

NickyTwoHats said:

Tell us more please Phil

We're under a NDA for a while with the technical details, but we tested numerous parts including one really nicely designed add-on from a PHer that improved one area of the car a great deal (I'm sure he'll post when the part is production ready).

The wind tunnel is truly amazing, and we all had to pinch ourselves that we were doing work that Noble themselves obviously never did. So parts of the standard car work better than we thought, and other areas were so bad we were all laughing during the test.

We were lucky to have one of the top aerodynamicists from Mira, and he really knew his onions (including how much drag and downforce they create as well, top man). Some of his casual 'you probably want to try this' were really eye openers in the results.

One last conclusion we came to is that if you design and build cars, and you don't test them in a wind tunnel, you are an idiot.

[DeanoM12]

Good on you guys for getting the cars in the wind tunnel...that couldn't of been cheap. how did the stock rear spoiler perform? im sure i read on here (and Nobleforums) that they dont actually work as well as you would think.

cheers.

Edited by DeanoM12 on Saturday 1st December 15:17

[AMG Merc]

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

...but we tested numerous parts including one really nicely designed add-on from a PHer that improved one area of the car a great deal (I'm sure he'll post when the part is production ready).

[NickyTwoHats]

Thanks Phil that sounds promising.

[No Lotus]

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

NickyTwoHats said:

Tell us more please Phil

We're under a NDA for a while with the technical details, but we tested numerous parts including one really nicely designed add-on from a PHer that improved one area of the car a great deal (I'm sure he'll post when the part is production ready).

The wind tunnel is truly amazing, and we all had to pinch ourselves that we were doing work that Noble themselves obviously never did. So parts of the standard car work better than we thought, and other areas were so bad we were all laughing during the test.

We were lucky to have one of the top aerodynamicists from Mira, and he really knew his onions (including how much drag and downforce they create as well, top man). Some of his casual 'you probably want to try this' were really eye openers in the results.

One last conclusion we came to is that if you design and build cars, and you don't test them in a wind tunnel, you are an idiot.

That is just great. I hope you'll be able to give us an idea of how much downforce the car generates. It must be a decent amount for a street legal car and certainly better than an Elise which is downforce neutral.

[Mr Noble]

Great work Phill! Very impressed!

Looking forward to hearing some of the news in due course.

Greg