Wussup with everybody hatin on wings., I dont understand that at all. Can someone enlighten me please? Options

[Lil-Joe101]

So reading through these forums I see alot of people aren't too fond of wings and spoilers. My question is why? Why all the hate on them, am I missing out on something, enlighten please.

[playr158]

i'd say the OP has a wing of sorts, albeit completely non functional except for being heavy. the GT4 i would consider a wing as well.

a spoiler is very close to the body and/or fully attached, where as a wing is up a good bit creating larger pressure zones.

Actually I have a spoiler. Its bolted to the to trunk and flares out as it goes higher. And even the smallest lip is functional. Im think of our car as a big paper airplane. It cut two slits in the back on slightly above the other raise the cen portion up u have a wing on ur paper airplane. Now think how air moves over under and around our cars. Dont think of the speed just the air. Now put a wing or a spoiler in the middle of the airflow. Wut happens is that airflow gets cut in half. U now have air flowing over the and under the air flowing under is trying to rise. while the air over is trying to lower. Easy way I can I can describe it is u get the same effect from a wing or spoiler as u do when u put ur hand out the window of a car and raise up and down. and magicly we have wut is know to be called down force. It really doesnt matter the speed.

you can call it a spoiler or a wing it really doesn't matter.

and if you actaully knew how aerodynamics work...speed is a completely important factor....downforce is created by making a low pressure zone under the wing and a high pressure zone above the wing...speed of the air is a DIRECT relationship to the magnitude of this function.

so no its not magical, there is a science to creating this function


my girlfriend says to put your hand out the window when you are sitting at a stoplight and see what happens....

This post has been edited by playr158: Nov 29, 2008 - 8:32 PM