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78F350 04-07-2025 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by CRallo (Post 666716)
Any more follow ups?

My knowledge base and experience would say the best way to add front downforce, regardless of actually adding downforce verse eliminating lift, would be to ditch the side RADS and use a center only rad in the duct that you built. In stock form the side rads pack air under the nose of the car in front of the tires and even opened up into the wheel while you're packing the wheel well with air which we already know is a high pressure area generally.

'Truegearhead' has made *SIGNIFICANT* changes to the car since 2020. I'm not sure how often he is on the 986 Forum now, but he updates on another forum regularly here:
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/forget-tt5-lets-go-off-the-deep-end-twin-turbo-v8-widebody-boxster/193174/page1/

Here's some more recent pics:
http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02/1301744034229.jpg

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/p...53d_thumb.jpeg

gonz 04-07-2025 02:32 PM

Thanks for the link, cool to see more of his project!

S50Sinner 04-14-2025 07:21 AM

This may be redundant, but have you tested with yarn yet? Tape yarn to the hood all over, especially the trailing edge of your extractor hole, and see what it does. It'll give you a lot of information about where your high pressure, low pressure and attached/detached flow areas are.


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