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Old 02-11-03, 06:06 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Re: How fast is your GT40?

Bill, Faili and all,

Roy wrote a piece for the club magazine a while back I believe on the rear sub-assy of his 40. I'm over there this weekend so I'll see if he has a copy to post here.

In the meantime, the new rear frame looks like this:


The old one fitted looked like this:


The side angles were originally longer and a sharper angle making more of a tunnel effect but were a pain when loading on the trailer.

Did they work? don't know for sure, but after running 170+mph, they had 'scraped the ground' so possibly. I suspect that they would have little or no effect below 100.
Now Roy and Ray have done windtunnel tests on a model... but that's another story. (a somewhat funny one too as I recall!)

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