Nine Fourteen Sex, The on going story of Love and Lust for a Machine. Options

[914 Ranch]

Trying to find motivation to keep her going and use her before I run out of time. I moved her to the workshop yesterday and today I put her transmission back in her. Need to change the gas tanks out as she has a 6 gallon tank in her now and I have a nice little 1.5 gallon tank for her. Only good for about 5 minutes of run time.

I backdated the picture because she looks totally deferent now. So I guess I should do that more often.



This picture is by Carl La Fong, sorry if I miss spelled it Carl. She has Carerror script on her side. At that time I had just decided to make her my race car.

While driving the freeways of LA dressed in that livery she was passed in her lane by 911's 3 times. No one takes the time to read Carerror they only see Carrera.

[914 Ranch]

More sideways pics. Mocking up the foil. I still like it.

[stownsen914]

Good idea to put it out front in clean air. If you want to be more daring, you could mount it lower to the ground to get some additional downforce boost from ground effect aerodynamics!

In short, if you put the wing close to the ground (like an F1 front wing), you can up to double the downforce. I pulled out my racecar aero book by Joseph Katz to remind myself of the details, but the wing has to be 1-2 inches off the ground to take advantage of this, so it's not trivial to do well.

I'm pasting below an article I found that shows some data on boosting a wing's downforce using the ground effect. Figure 5a shows the downforce vs. height info.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6437/5e8d4...cca2f3de407.pdf

[sixnotfour]

Good idea to put it out front in clean air. If you want to be more daring, you could mount it lower to the ground to get some additional downforce boost from ground effect aerodynamics!

In short, if you put the wing close to the ground (like an F1 front wing), you can up to double the downforce. I pulled out my racecar aero book by Joseph Katz to remind myself of the details, but the wing has to be 1-2 inches off the ground to take advantage of this, so it's not trivial to do well.

I'm pasting below an article I found that shows some data on boosting a wing's downforce using the ground effect. Figure 5a shows the downforce vs. height info.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6437/5e8d4...cca2f3de407.pdf

great info.. low in front on z 914 there is a brick behind it though ..unless its out front far enough??

[stownsen914]

great info.. low in front on z 914 there is a brick behind it though ..unless its out front far enough??

Good point. Low in front of a 914 would be tricky for multiple reasons - clearance issues, and also challenges about getting the air out the backside of a low-mounted wing. May not make sense.