Sweet looking Coat hanger for the Boxster

Uhhhh... I dont think so. F1 racers have adjustable wings, but they adjust it by putting in a hex key or something and turning it 3 rotations to make it 1/2 a degree difference. Are you talking about motorized wings or something? The one on ebay has different settings, so does the factory gt3 wing, and some others.

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Originally Posted by boggtown

....Are you talking about motorized wings or something?.........

no.

i'd heard it was a cable controlled lever mounted so the driver could adjust the angle of the wing up or down and control his trip real-time. he'd adjust it, maybe on a straight-away, and lock it down until his next adjustment time?!?!?

when i heard about it, i thought that driver really knows his car to want to do that all thru his race. to me, i thought spoilers were only to keep the rear section of the car down so that air rushing under the car wouldn't compromise the rear tire road contact; sort of keep 'em gripping.

maybe the guy i heard if from was mistaken.

Ya, they are made to give better contact at high speeds on the rear, but they are most effective with a front spoiler to keep the entire car either neutral weight or heavier (relative weight, lbs of downforce) at high speeds. Thats why you see all those front lip spoilers for sale too. F1 cars do about 3 g's around turns due to the combination of spoilers, body design, and tires. It simulates the car weighing like 4 thousand pounds at speed when in reality it doesnt (less inertia, but more "mass"), thus it can go around a turn faster. Fc=(mv^2)/(r). The more mass, the faster you can go around a turn. Which is why you could probably go around a corner in an F1 car at 20 mph and live, and at 200 mph and live, but if you only go 70 you might not have enough downforce to keep you on the road. Its crazy stuff like that that makes you tune specifacally to your car or the track.