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MK -IV J6 · 04-12-02, 03:22 PM

Hi MB
You are right Tenant/Abby. The MK-IV's also have "turbine" wheels which extract air through the brakes out of the wheel wells which also reduces lift. The J car that Miles was killed in had 16inch wheels which may have contributed to his crash and the move to 15inch wheels on the MK-IV. There is a picture of the turbine wheels on the 917 thread. (There is no official or even agreed upon answer as to why Miles crashed) As far as the raison d'etre for any of these cars I am taken with Enzo Ferrari's statement to the designers of the F40: "I don't care if the car has has electric windows. I don't care if the panel gaps are crooked but, when he steps of the accelerator I want him to shit his pants."

04-12-02, 03:22 PM	#18 (permalink)
MK -IV J6 MK -IV J6 10 tenths Join Date: Mar 2002 GT40: NYC,USA Posts: 1,590 Rep Power: 24	Re: High speed lift problem Hi MB You are right Tenant/Abby. The MK-IV's also have "turbine" wheels which extract air through the brakes out of the wheel wells which also reduces lift. The J car that Miles was killed in had 16inch wheels which may have contributed to his crash and the move to 15inch wheels on the MK-IV. There is a picture of the turbine wheels on the 917 thread. (There is no official or even agreed upon answer as to why Miles crashed) As far as the raison d'etre for any of these cars I am taken with Enzo Ferrari's statement to the designers of the F40: "I don't care if the car has has electric windows. I don't care if the panel gaps are crooked but, when he steps of the accelerator I want him to shit his pants."