1) How are they going to lower it? It is already on the ground.
2) The picture you posted is going to have a ton less drag.


Look at the surface area of each car. You are telling me that front end will not contribute to drag? With that train of thought I could stick a liitle spliter on the front of a bus and all of a sudden it is a areodynamic monster...

 

It is the tall flat front area that is going to cause the drag. The other cars have half the surface area.

 

My thought is that racing aerodynamics deal less with drag than with using aerodynamics to enhance vehicle dynamics via downforce and turbulence control.

If a race car's main concern was slipperiness, they need to look something like a sideways teardrop or a fish or have their wheels covered and such.

 

Ugly.

 

ummm like F1 cars?

 

Yes, thank you for pointing that out. F1 cars are balanced in all respects (downforce, turbulence, and drag) for performance. They represent the apex for car dynamics. F1 cars are essentially inverse wings with engines. As anyone knows, the cross section of a wing is teardrop shaped.

 

my bad, i was talking about the wing it self (becasue you post another gtr with almos the same set up on ride height) , they can either lower or raise it. but one thing i do not uderstand is, you see both those 2 gtrs, they almost look texactly the same but yet you think the test car has higher drag then then Motul gtr. they are pretty much the same width, same ride height, but yet the test car has higher drag? that is where i am confused. t

the reason why i brought up wing lower and raising, because i can not see where you think the car it self will have high drag when you post a another gtr with almost the same set up. so i automactially thought you was talking about the wing.

any ways we can go back and forth, but i think its best i stop. i not understanding your terms.
my bad for misunderstanding you /bow

 

Ahh I see, misunderstanding. I was talking about the surface area of the front of the car.

I't might look like the ride height is the same but they are very different. If you take a look at the wheels you can see the surface area of the front of the car is almost double that of the other gtr.

If you look at the doors you will see the black one has about 6 or 8 inches of skirt instead of actualy lowering the car. The other car has actualy been droped so low the fenders are actualty the tallest point.

That is what I was getting at, hence the snow plow comment because the front of the car is so tall.

 

First of all, add me to the "CF Hater Club."

Second, even with the ridiculously tall skirts and front clip, it's still seems to ride too high. I especially dislike how it seems that the middle of the front clip looks to dip down lower than the sides.

Finally,

 

It's been pointed out that the carbon fiber car is a TEST car. Does anyone know exactly what they were testing? Perhaps aerodynamics were not important for the tests they were conducting.

 

It's nice, but it's an old body design.

 

Testing how to plow snow?

 

Hey if it plows snow pretty good I'd want it! My towns snow plows suck. They always wait till way after the storm has passed before plowing.

 

^ Thay=t way they only have to plow once.

Saves money.

Just don't get stuck in that yellow snow.

 

lol, at least its got the right wheels to be deedubb's car

 

how bout I turn this thread into a nascar thread,,that would be sick!!

quick, someone pass me a 6 pack & my redheaded cousin, the tent is pitched and ready to camp!

 

Here

 

i'd also like to see 2 midgets in the back seat wrasslin...

 

sorry, but Rodger is on vacation...you'll need to settle for ONE midge.

 

I would trade in my rx-8+10k to drive that skyline.
enuff said

 

just to drive it?

dayum, its not THAT great

 

You'd have to give ME $10,000 to be seen in that thing.

 

tajabaho has an auto, that's why.