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Originally Posted by syborg tt
yep that is one of the wickers.
Also that is the location of the wheels.
I will also try to get some pictures of the Viper that Dave was working on for the Salt Flats with similar Wickers on the fenders and rear of the car. There goal was to go over 200mph but they blew up the engine on the Dyno the wick before.
PS - they put over 500lbs of lead weight in the front of the viper just to make sure it stayed on the ground.
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Putting weight in the front end just means the aero is not sorted out. Maybe within the rules of their class they cannot sort it out? I've raced against 205-210 MPH Vipers, but they ran different front ends that were designed to create downforce.
The term wickers I always thought was for strips added to the trailing edge of wings used for fine tuning, also known as 'Gurney Flaps'. On the Cuda, my guess is those pieces are doing more for eliminating underhood pressure (which creates lift) than creating downforce directly. From the picture, it doesn't look like they did much to manage the internal aerodynamics of the car - meaning managing the airflow that comes into the engine compartment and getting it back out. Can't tell from the one pic.
That may be why they needed the add-ons to the fenders.
If a car has lot's of lift on the front, a splitter is one of the few free lunches in creating downforce at the front end of a car and it is tuneable. It's also quite common to see designs that manage the airflow at the front end that use curved surfaces on the inlet side - which is basically a mini inverted wing surface - to accelerate the airflow and create downforce. That isn't easily tuneable, but could be calculated.
It's been a while since I looked at an SCTA rule book, but I do remember there were quite a few things they didn't allow, such as body mounted wings. They may be working within the constraints of the rules.
John Buscema
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