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]

Bill:
That's the nice thing about building a race car, you can do anything you want...within the rules. You can do research on an issue and choose to employ an item or not. The results show up at the track (or in this case AX).
Other's opinions on the net are free and in some cases, wise.....others are worth what they cost.
It appears to me that Randal is making a good run at building a hell of an AXer to compete in a larger arena. Pay attention, you may learn sumthin'. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[URY914]

Bill:
That's the nice thing about building a race car, you can do anything you want...within the rules. You can do research on an issue and choose to employ an item or not. The results show up at the track (or in this case AX).
Other's opinions on the net are free and in some cases, wise.....others are worth what they cost.
It appears to me that Randal is making a good run at building a hell of an AXer to compete in a larger arena. Pay attention, you may learn sumthin'. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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[grantsfo]

Bill:
That's the nice thing about building a race car, you can do anything you want...within the rules. You can do research on an issue and choose to employ an item or not. The results show up at the track (or in this case AX).
Other's opinions on the net are free and in some cases, wise.....others are worth what they cost.
It appears to me that Randal is making a good run at building a hell of an AXer to compete in a larger arena. Pay attention, you may learn sumthin'. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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Yeah Bill what do you know. LOL!

Honestly with the little T4 in that car I dont think extra drag is what Randal wants right now. He needs all the speed he can muster? I'd spend more time cleaning up airflow over the car as Bill suggests. Especially if he is hillclimbing the car. Too much spoiler drag can take tons of top speed off the straights in low HP car like his. You guys are looking at spoilers on 350 to 500 HP cars as models? One might argue they dont need to worry about drag as much as a sub 200 HP car that weighs the same. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

This post has been edited by grantsfo: May 31 2011, 04:23 PM