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Slightly OT, reminds me of a story...
Posted by Eric Law [Email] (more from Eric Law) on Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:37:50
In Reply to: Rear wing/spoiler, Cryptical, Sun, 7 Dec 2003 22:28:29
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...years ago I used to work at an auto repair shop, and one of our customers had, you guessed it, a highly-tuned Honda. A CRX actually with major suspension mods, racing seat & rollcage, turbocharger - the whole treatment. The rear swaybar had no rubber bushings anywhere - it was attached with heim joints. And when the rear suspension was completely unloaded (as when on a lift), it would make a distinctive rattling noise.
Well the addition of the turbo enabled the car to go just a tad faster than designed, and one day he reported that when the car hit ~125 MPH, the same noise would come from the rear suspension as when the car was on the lift! Aerodynamic lift was literally trying to pick the rear of the car right up off the ground.
We told him the solution was just to accelerate harder to cause weight transfer to the rear ;^)
Eric Law
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Posts in this Thread:
- Rear wing/spoiler, Cryptical, Sun, 7 Dec 2003 22:28:29
- Slightly OT, reminds me of a story..., Eric Law, Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:37:50 <-- Viewing This Message
- Forgive me, but why do you need downforce >, Bill Davies, Mon, 8 Dec 2003 00:22:30
- Re: Rear wing/spoiler, Cryptical, Sun, 7 Dec 2003 22:32:43
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