Old Sep 14, 2013 | 08:57 PM
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if it will help suck your stinky farts out of the car then im all for it.


Another update on the front end.

Went down to collect my front clam today after having a set of canards made for it,

Got home tonight started to fitted them.



You can see they are fairly wide, its easy to add rear downforce, the front is where the hard work goes in.

I then put the clam back on the car to see how it looks




this only shows 3 as one was slightly wrong so will be getting it remade when I get chance.

Ive got a low downforce set as per the pictures and a high downforce set which is more at a steep angle, ill be trying the low downforce set first to see how the aero balance is, then keep turning the rear wing up till I get understeer then put on the high downforce to see if it balances out and if it does truely add more downforce

Next up was to fit some tiebars to stiffen it up, now on the previous splitter I made the mistake of fitting the front tiebars to close together and ended up with the corners a bit to flexable, this time ive ran them out fairly wide to try and stop that, also because it sticks out more at the front i need to reduce flex.




Next thing for me to do is hook up 2 more tiebars to the outside rear sections just infront of the wheels to stop and droop there, I also have one tie bar after that which I might but in the middle depending on how it reacts at 100mph.

i also have some large end plates to fit to the ends of the canards which will then be bolted to the splitter aswell so that all the downforce is spread throughout the front end rather than risk having a component flex

Also refitted my rear clam with all the rear section cut out, it saves weight, reduces drag as it gives the inlets somewhere to go and also helps vent all the hot air from the engine.


The next job is to fit the rear wing and the place at made the wing is also going to make me a set of kevlar doors with polycarb windows which should save about 26kg total.