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oldcorollas Forums Junkie Location: Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan Registered: January 2003	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars Wed, 03 March 2004 16:13 theres two different things here.. a 'spoiler' does just that, it upsets the air leaving the surface of the car that would other wise create turbulence directly behind the car and slow it a little. a 'wing' actually creates downforce. one big difference between them is that a spoiler is meant to reduce drag (a proper one that is) but gives little downforce, whereas a wing increases drag significantly but provides downforce. for the F1 cars they produce around 2 tonnes of downforce as a total package (front and rear wing, slick belly very close to road etc) but this is only at high speed, maybe 300km/hr++ for sports sedans, they might generate a coupel of hundred kilos of downforce at 200km/hr, but they have significant drag and that makes the car slower down the straights!!! (but faster in corners) the Lotus Exige has more bodykit than the normal Lotus Elise, BUT, it only generates either 50 or 80kg of downforce at 160km/hr and not much at all below abotu 130-140..... what would help on a FWD is to have a 'cat-cutter' with maybe an inch ground clearance, and sideskirts to match.. the idea being to stop any air going under the car from in front, and keep it out.. rear 'wings' and 'diffusers' and 'spoilers' on any street car look pretty lame, and do sfa, until you are well beyond legal speeds. LOL, "fooly siik 5 way adjustable BLING brand double blade wing" hand me my chequebook!!!!!!!! so, original question. they can slightly decrease the drag co-efficient if designed and implemented properly. the normal 'add-on' ones just increase drag and slow themn doen (at high speeds ) basically zey doo nussing Cya, Stewart [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Rear spoilers on FWD cars	Shraka	Wed, 03 March 2004 09:36
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	shinybluesteel	Wed, 03 March 2004 09:39
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	adamb131	Wed, 03 March 2004 09:45
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	RWDboy	Wed, 03 March 2004 13:52
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	T APLUS 22	Wed, 03 March 2004 14:01
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	RWDboy	Wed, 03 March 2004 14:11
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	T APLUS 22	Wed, 03 March 2004 14:30
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	oldcorollas	Wed, 03 March 2004 16:13
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	IRA11Y	Wed, 03 March 2004 22:09
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	gold28	Wed, 03 March 2004 23:24
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	wagonist	Thu, 04 March 2004 02:02
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	RWDboy	Thu, 04 March 2004 02:06
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	IRA11Y	Thu, 04 March 2004 03:12
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	Shraka	Thu, 04 March 2004 03:10
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	RWDboy	Thu, 04 March 2004 03:30
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	ae86trueno	Thu, 04 March 2004 04:00
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	wagonist	Thu, 04 March 2004 04:46
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	IRA11Y	Thu, 04 March 2004 05:26
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	pro_ke	Thu, 04 March 2004 07:41
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	IRA11Y	Thu, 04 March 2004 10:46
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	oldcorollas	Thu, 04 March 2004 10:58
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	gold28	Thu, 04 March 2004 03:43
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	midnight	Thu, 04 March 2004 05:31
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	gold28	Thu, 04 March 2004 05:43
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	IRA11Y	Thu, 04 March 2004 05:45
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	gianttomato	Thu, 04 March 2004 06:27
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	ed_ma61	Thu, 04 March 2004 07:23
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	EGG80X	Thu, 04 March 2004 10:35
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	gold28	Thu, 04 March 2004 21:29
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	IRA11Y	Fri, 05 March 2004 05:02
	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars	gianttomato	Fri, 05 March 2004 19:51

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