roof wing
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2nd Gear Member
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From: CLINTON CT
roof wing
i have a 2004 ford mustang gt i am looking to find a cheap carbon fiber roof wing i did search but im not paying 200-400 dollors to some company i never heard of for a roof wing. Can anybody help me out or possibly have one for sale or no someone really looking for one. thank you
TECH SAVANT
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 10,937
From: Saint Augustine, FL
If you are referring to something such as this:
It is actually a spoiler not a wing--and I don't care what the twips selling them call it.
Spoilers disrupt/breakup laminar flow and reduce drag by creating a turbulent boundary layer which behaves as "ball-bearings" for the air flow over the turbulent boundary; by reducing the characteristic drag of laminar flows.
Wings OTH, if effective, create gobs of drag which they convert into downward force (in the case of land vehicles) to improve traction and therefore handling. The more effective they are at creating downforce the more drag they generate.
The wings on a Formula 1 race car generate incredible amounts of drag because they generate equally incredible amounts of downforce--4 to 5 times the weight of the vehicle.
Getting back to your "roof wing", and despite my mother always telling me "If you cannot say something nice, say nothing."--yuk...
It is actually a spoiler not a wing--and I don't care what the twips selling them call it.
Spoilers disrupt/breakup laminar flow and reduce drag by creating a turbulent boundary layer which behaves as "ball-bearings" for the air flow over the turbulent boundary; by reducing the characteristic drag of laminar flows.
Wings OTH, if effective, create gobs of drag which they convert into downward force (in the case of land vehicles) to improve traction and therefore handling. The more effective they are at creating downforce the more drag they generate.
The wings on a Formula 1 race car generate incredible amounts of drag because they generate equally incredible amounts of downforce--4 to 5 times the weight of the vehicle.
Getting back to your "roof wing", and despite my mother always telling me "If you cannot say something nice, say nothing."--yuk...
Last edited by cliffyk; Jul 20, 2012 at 08:46 PM.
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Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 8,540
From: South FL
Cheap and Carbon Fiber don't go together. If you want a quality product (esp with CF), you're gonna have to pay.
On a side note, why did a thread about a 2004 GT get moved from that section to the S197 section???
On a side note, why did a thread about a 2004 GT get moved from that section to the S197 section???
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Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 1,977
From: Atlanta
That's the only section on the forum that would know anything about putting such a thing on a Mustang GT. I would have asked them too.
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