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- From: chrisp@regenmeister.Sun.COM (Chris Prael)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Do SPOILERS Really Work??? no.
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 22:18:21 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- From article <1gdv4eINNoen@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, by cn832@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (J. Grant Montgomery):
- > My question is, I have an '85 Toyota Celica Supra and it has a factory
- > spoiler on the liftgate. It does extend across the entire width of the
- > car, and it is maybe 3-5" tall. I drive along I-80 in the valley in CA
- > and I get knocked around by winds every once and awhile. Would I
- > experience more problems with the wind if I didn't have the spoiler?
- > I mean is mine doing any good at all or does it just look neat?
-
- The answer is: you will have to experiment to find out. Configurations
- to check are: 1. no spoilers, 2. front spoiler only, 3. rear spoiler
- only, 4. front and rear spoilers.
-
- Any number of us can sit at our confusers and make pronouncements about
- what will happen to your aerodynamics if you do thus-and-so. It will
- all be just so much hot air (electronically transmitted). The only way
- you will find out is by testing the configurations that you think might
- improve your car's behavior. You may also want to test more or less
- extreme spoilers in front and/or in back.
-
- Chris Prael
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