Spoilers, SCCA legal Options

[Randal]

Down at AAS yesterday.

All the modified cars had huge spoilers. I thought 8" was the limit, but it looked more like a foot.

Got to figure out what is legal and get one of those puppies on 222.

[J P Stein]

Grant always needs to have the last word so here it is....His thread from another forum without comment:




http://axpaddock.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=667

He has deleted stuff in the past to cover his tracks so be quick.

5-11-11
"So stock motor blew after a several thousand miles with stock 6500 rpm rev limiter with extra cooling, etc. And from my experience shift point is far below redline on stock 2.5 so shifts are more like 6200 rpm. I'm still not convinced m96 is something I ever want to touch again. mine blew first track event, Andrew blew his, several others have blown with relatively low miles and now Lucille. All stock low revving motors. I just don't see stock motors blowing so often as a great thing. I know stock air cooled 6s that have run much longer with regular track work. Think i have to admit i agree with JP that these motors stink. No worries about me running a spec boaster ever. Even m97 appears to have issues from what I see with racing Caymans.

I just say this as I have chased Larry's nealy 200K mile RSA around tracks, see it show up for tons of AX's and it seems to be still running fine. Tired but no broken pistons, slipped sleaves, fried cam bearings, blown RMS seals etc. We just see tons of issues with Boxster motors. Given their fairly mild tune and low RPMs I'm just suprised they fail so often. Well not really when I see the poor design execution in the motors. I was shocked when I saw my motor torn arpart. Lots of short cuts made on this mass produced powerplant.

Only motor Porsche seems to have dialed in is GT3 power plant. I'm waiting for 996 GT3 prices to come down more. Or I may go back to another air cooled P car.

Owner of my Boxster race car is going with LN Engineering block and tons of work to make it more reliable but dang thats expensive! Its a shame as I love the chassis on the Boxster and really understand how to build one now. I just cant stand the motor and lack of resources to go after its inherent weaknesses."

[jjackson]

Sooo.... being from Arkansas and everything-it gets my attention when there are any pig quotes addressing lipstick issues-you know...barefoot and all......Randal
how is the spoiler plan coming along.The 100 sq inch endplates make for an interesting question.Also mesuring at 10" high at midpoint of your trunk-squared off and extending to the width of your flares.Simple design if your trunk was fixed.What if you were three pieces-the outers pieces with endplates permanently attached to car-say with some sort of closer flap when all three pieces aligned?
(our non wing closed off flap is grey duct tape)Just thinking about original thread.JJackson
BTW 1/4 inch lexan is really stout for drilling,countersinking,and attaching appendages. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)



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[J P Stein]

Sooo.... being from Arkansas and everything-it gets my attention when there are any pig quotes addressing lipstick issues-you know...barefoot and all......

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Jeeze, I didn't mean to get ya'll.....er... aroused or sumthin'. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[jjackson]

2 Piece trunk lid-fiberglass -front pinned-rear fixed -closed off and effective? Just thinking.JJackson

[Randal]

2 Piece trunk lid-fiberglass -front pinned-rear fixed -closed off and effective? Just thinking.JJackson

I have been thinking about getting started on the spoiler this weekend. Been down to TAP plastics in Mountain View and they have some pretty nice equipment to shape anything you want and can glue anything together for which you have the templates.

Oh, I like the duct tape idea for closing off the bottom ends of the spoiler. Was looking at that for sometime yesterday trying to figure out a way to get a shape.

Anyway i don't think I'll be adding anything to the car until after my return from the hill climb and the autoX at Medford.

The car seems to be pretty predictable now, abet the driver being behind, but don't want to inject any high speed aero differences until after the hill climb.

The 1.5 lane road is not forgiving if you go off, as you can see from the video of a 2009 (second day) run when a driver lost it after turn 2 and hit a tree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV_WrCjpiB0

I'm going to run the next AAS autoX in early June so will get a chance to play with the car again. Hell, who knows I might have 6 minutes total under my belt before I start that hill climb; what more could you ask for?

How far out West do you guys come to run SCCA events? It's be fun to hook up.