Dave, improper splitter adjustment can be uplifting...

[Tom F&L GoR]

Dave, saw this and it suggests you should have your splitter professionally aligned.

Flying_car - ViperClub Photo Gallery

 

[red98RT10]

Good call!

 

[GR8_ASP]

So how do you misadjust a splitter to cause front lift?

And yes I have observed the same type of event. The Mercedes on the Mulsanne straight made it spectacular back in 1998 I believe. But that was not due to poor splitter adjustment but overall aero that when the front end lifted as when cresting a hill.

 

[J&R3xV10]

dang that makes the car look light.

 

[Tom F&L GoR]

So how do you misadjust a splitter to cause front lift?

And yes I have observed the same type of event. The Mercedes on the Mulsanne straight made it spectacular back in 1998 I believe. But that was not due to poor splitter adjustment but overall aero that when the front end lifted as when cresting a hill.

The racing series studied the Mercedes at LeMans and concluded that
1) the depth (centerline of front wheels and measuring forward) of the flat plane ahead of the front wheels
2) following a car closely and being in the leading car's turbulence caused by leading car's rear wing and body shape
3) cresting a slight hill
contributed. The thing they could control easily was the size of the flat body panel ahead of the front wheels, so they made a rule to limit it.

My desktop is a picture of the Mercedes in the air with the Viper still on the racetrack "below" it. The video is equally dramatic since the car takes a left turn off the track and lands in the woods. Two of three Mercedes cars did this, and they ended up pulling the third car.

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

It takes speed for that to happen. Dave doesn't have anything to worry about.

 

[xlrashn]

It takes speed for that to happen. Dave doesn't have anything to worry about.

I would have to agree that the drag created from white hood vents (because they ****) will limit Dave's top speed to levels that would eliminate risk of lift off.

 

[dave6666]

With white being the brightest of all colors, combo'd with the fastest of all colors - red - my car has supersonic written all over it. So yes, I am concerned about the lift being generated at the hood vent to atmosphere interface, as the color structure of the red and white pulls the car upward toward the source.

My aero build - using a specifically metered satin black finish - has the reversing effect from the hood vents because of the proton management that the satin black delivers. If light were to hit my splitter and reflect itself uncontrollably toward the source? I have no doubt that the triangulation of a white NACA duct with the vents would reduce the lift, but who can paint their hood components while airborne?

In less simple engineering terms, the derivatives of the surface area curvature of my splitter are not be be confused with contact friction of the third root power. Careful selection of wave fractions must be initiated by reflective light control from the managed planes in real time.

So no, I don't think it's my hood vents.

 

[Tom F&L GoR]

sounds like a "white" wash... I don't do white, and I don't wash. I go for the "dimpled golf ball flies further and faster" theory.

 

[Venomiss]

Too funny. This could not happen due to paint friction from the white areas on his car.

 

[alpine7822]

Dave, don't worry about it. You have enough balast from all the LoneStar to keep the car planted firmly to the ground. Worse case scenario, if you feel a slight "lift," stop at the nearest retail outlet and purchase at least a case, which should hold the car down until you can get home and transfer the canned beverage into a more portable and easily carried container (your stomach). Note of caution: this may cause you to expel some of the balast material in the form of waste at a later time, so you will need to repeat this procedure often. Also, continued use of this method until your splitter is properly aligned may cause extreme conditions (excessive front balast), thus lowering the overall top speed of your car.

 

[jdeft1]

Am I to understand that the reflected black photons (which are inversly proportional to the white ones) will be drawn in the direction away from the source ie: the ground, therefore, drawing the vehicle toward the negative aspect?? That would mean red is the balancing variable and can likely be fine-tuned so that the photons will be rejected laterally. Gently tuning the amount of red will likely allow you to hover!! Hence, no more need for the underside neon mentioned on fool's day!!

 

[triblk6spd]

With white being the brightest of all colors, combo'd with the fastest of all colors - red - my car has supersonic written all over it. So yes, I am concerned about the lift being generated at the hood vent to atmosphere interface, as the color structure of the red and white pulls the car upward toward the source.

My aero build - using a specifically metered satin black finish - has the reversing effect from the hood vents because of the proton management that the satin black delivers. If light were to hit my splitter and reflect itself uncontrollably toward the source? I have no doubt that the triangulation of a white NACA duct with the vents would reduce the lift, but who can paint their hood components while airborne?

In less simple engineering terms, the derivatives of the surface area curvature of my splitter are not be be confused with contact friction of the third root power. Careful selection of wave fractions must be initiated by reflective light control from the managed planes in real time.

So no, I don't think it's my hood vents.

Ha, ha now THAT !@#$ was funny. Have another cold one.

 

[triplexotica]

Must have been the VIPAIR-turbonator.

If that car only had wings!

That was sick.

 

[dave6666]

A red and white hoovercraft...?









Wonder if PPG or Sikkens would give the best lift.

 

[Tom F&L GoR]

"Hoover" craft? That would ****.