What are these called?
- Thread starter Glanza-V
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hardcoreep
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They are called canards. Ugly things. If you want Starlet specific ones then one of the traders can source them. Otherwise you buy them universal and trim them.
Adam_Glanza
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if you look at the shape they obviously give you more downforce on the front
riko666
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umm, no, the way you think is not the way it is...They don't act as a spoiler.
Apart from cutting bystander's knees in half, Canards mounted on the front bumper lead to an increase in downforce and decrease in drag by causing the air flowing by the sides of the car to tumble, i.e. roll by the side, similar to a venturi effect. What this achieves is that you have an area of low pressure flowing by the side of the car which cuts down drag as well as increasing downforce by reducing the escaping of air from under the car via the sides of the car (i.e. under the sills)...
The air "pushing down" on the canards has negligible effect as the canards themselves are too small in area to generate any meaningful effect
Apart from cutting bystander's knees in half, Canards mounted on the front bumper lead to an increase in downforce and decrease in drag by causing the air flowing by the sides of the car to tumble, i.e. roll by the side, similar to a venturi effect. What this achieves is that you have an area of low pressure flowing by the side of the car which cuts down drag as well as increasing downforce by reducing the escaping of air from under the car via the sides of the car (i.e. under the sills)...
The air "pushing down" on the canards has negligible effect as the canards themselves are too small in area to generate any meaningful effect
goldenvtr
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Adam_Glanza
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ok well in leymans terms i was pretty much right.. but then riko goes and gets all scientifical 
fair play tho man i knew it was along them lines lol to do with aerodynamics
fair play tho man i knew it was along them lines lol to do with aerodynamics