We’d tripled our Miata’s OEM horsepower via an LFX swap, and this fact sent chills down our spine: We’ve raced this car at Daytona, and even with only 200 horsepower, it was no fun at higher speeds.
Early Miatas like ours make boatloads of aerodynamic lift in stock form, and that makes them both harder to drive and slower around …
I know the Nine Lives Racing Wing adds lots of downforce, but I just think it looks really cool.
Really, most cars end up looking pretty neat with a wing, in my opinion, as long as it's done well.
I'm curious what angle y'all set up on
because it looks like you're "in the middle of the range"... or ~8deg?
In reply to sleepyhead the buffalo :
I always start at zero degrees and add angle (Wangle?) at the first test day. IIRC we settled on about 5 degrees.
Tom Suddard said:In reply to sleepyhead the buffalo :
[...]and add angle (Wangle?) at the first test day. IIRC we settled on about 5 degrees.
imha: it's a flap, not a wing/wang... so, Flangle?
iirc, 5deg is where their cfd indicates the elan foil begins to stall behind the miata hardtop. It's kinda interesting to realize the MDF kit is rear-aero limited, and not front-limited, as is the case with most production-based cars (afaik).
Yeah, we hit that measurement organically testing at CMP. That seemed to be the car's happy place.
Are you rules limited on the front splitter size? Seems like the pairing would be very biased toward rear downforce.
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