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RWDboy Forums Junkie Location: South Australia Registered: July 2002	Re: Rear spoilers on FWD cars Thu, 04 March 2004 03:30 It just seems like a poor question... FWD cars are very rarely used for racing above 200km/h, so basically if you see a big huge spoiler/wing on a FWD car, you are looking at a complete tosser. There are reasons for having rear spoilers, but it's not ENTIRELY because the power happens to be at the rear wheels. It's moreso because the rear wheels are slipping (when too much is asked of them) because the *large* portion of aerodynamic downforce acts on the front wheels and not the rears (look at the wedge shaped design of most cars please). However, by adding a rear wing you can increase (or achieve greater balance of) downforce at the rear, and even when the power is not used (for example into and up to about the middle of the corner so this affect would help front or rear wheel drive cars) your rear end doesn't oversteer to oblivion. Of course rear wheel drive cars will get benefits from increased downforce at the rear-end when coming out of a corner...but the FWD has tonnes of downforce on it's front-end as well regardless. I think that about covers it. There's so much more to it though...go read "Race Car Vehicle Dynamics" (I know I should). [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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