New Boxster Hard Top Prototype

[Topless]

Floviz, so that is the goo he was spraying all over your tail. A little Floviz and the Fontana Roval equals a working mans wind tunnel. Nice! Probably a lot cheaper than renting one of Glenn's fans at NASA-JPL... unless the car lifts off at 140mph and tosses you in the grandstands. I guess it worked pretty well cuz you were certainly laying down fast laps.

Good to see you guys out there. We need to run the same tracks more often.

[Grim1ock77]

Very cool, it's nice to see custom hard work like that pay off.

[jaykay]

Nice! The shot of you under that cup car is interesting. You now have a much more slippery profile than he does as the boxster front shield is much more raked. What where things like down the straights against him? (sure yes I know he can lay down power on exits)

yeah I want one...

[Eric523]

Originally Posted by jaykay

Nice! The shot of you under that cup car is interesting. You now have a much more slippery profile than he does as the boxster front shield is much more raked. What where things like down the straights against him? (sure yes I know he can lay down power on exits)

yeah I want one...

Yeah, that is a really cool shot to compare from. That car is a factory 993 RSR, and this one in particular is the Rothsport Racing 3.9L that makes 400rwhp. He had about 70hp and 200lb weight advantage on me. My aero advantage wasn't enough to keep up on the straight, but I would really gain on him in the NASCAR banked turns 1 and 2 at the speedway. I'll post up some videos ASAP to illustrate this.

[Eric523]

Originally Posted by Topless

Floviz, so that is the goo he was spraying all over your tail. A little Floviz and the Fontana Roval equals a working mans wind tunnel. Nice! Probably a lot cheaper than renting one of Glenn's fans at NASA-JPL... unless the car lifts off at 140mph and tosses you in the grandstands. I guess it worked pretty well cuz you were certainly laying down fast laps.

Good to see you guys out there. We need to run the same tracks more often.

Yep, and they took a ton of photos of all of it after that session. I love being their 150mph test mule...But yes, it did work and we were able to go two seconds faster than we ever had previously. Not all in the roof, but it made up for all of the frontal area we added by widening the front end. Data shows we kept our previous top speed up without adding any horsepower. That's not bad when adding 2'' to the front end and increasing front tires from 250 to 280's.

Good to see you guys out there!