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Hemipanter · 11-22-05, 01:32 PM

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Goran,

Your car is a modified Pantera, and if I remember correctly, it has a very aggressive front spoiler with a splitter and fairly aggressive side skirts?

I wouldn’t think a GT40, with it’s rounded lower sides and no skirts, would see as much downforce in street trim. Also, I don’t think you could rake it a lot and still have it be streetable.

That said, did you measure this on you car before you fitted the spoiler and side skirts? If you were able to get something near that much from a Pantera without side sills and with a streetable spoiler, I may have underestimated what is possible here.

Kevin

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Kevin, I am awhere that my car has a agressive spoiler-splitter. But the side skirts is mostley Pantera GT5 design that dosent hang down lower than the underside. So it is no real "tunnel".
I have done a lot measurments, but there is allways something missing. One is standard Pantera underside pressure. But I know that with totally level underside (no rake) there is Zero pressure-vacuum. There are a image of the underside on my site http://hem.passagen.se/hemipanter/
klick Aerodynamics.
Goran Malmberg

11-22-05, 01:32 PM	#72 (permalink)
Hemipanter Rookie Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Being working sportscar since 1970, and building guitars since 1960. GT40: Stockholm Sweden Posts: 62 Rep Power: 5	Re: How are all the budding chassis Designers fairing? [ QUOTE ] Goran, Your car is a modified Pantera, and if I remember correctly, it has a very aggressive front spoiler with a splitter and fairly aggressive side skirts? I wouldn’t think a GT40, with it’s rounded lower sides and no skirts, would see as much downforce in street trim. Also, I don’t think you could rake it a lot and still have it be streetable. That said, did you measure this on you car before you fitted the spoiler and side skirts? If you were able to get something near that much from a Pantera without side sills and with a streetable spoiler, I may have underestimated what is possible here. Kevin [/ QUOTE ] Kevin, I am awhere that my car has a agressive spoiler-splitter. But the side skirts is mostley Pantera GT5 design that dosent hang down lower than the underside. So it is no real "tunnel". I have done a lot measurments, but there is allways something missing. One is standard Pantera underside pressure. But I know that with totally level underside (no rake) there is Zero pressure-vacuum. There are a image of the underside on my site http://hem.passagen.se/hemipanter/ klick Aerodynamics. Goran Malmberg