Future APR aluminum wing

[i3igpete]

i'm starting to see the prototype wing in different places now... and from what i'm reading, their park bench aluminum wings from the 90s were actually very well designed. it was just ahead of their time with the anti-rice sentiment that they killed them off. now they've come full circle since people are tracking their cars more often now.

note the buttload of mounting holes on the brackets. talk about dialing in the downforce exactly!

[MR2]

yeah love the big fuckoff wing!

[IPD]

in before the superbird wing is reincarnated.

[i3igpete]

Looks like ciro design went ahead with their own design without waiting for APR to officially release it. better yet, they have the 3000gt as an mount application.

Ciro Design Racing Wing Packages and Parts

[Nationalmilkman]

I really like that wing, but those end plates are huge! I'm guessing they help in the side to side stability of the car as a whole, but do they really need to be that big?

[anyonebutme]

I really like that wing, but those end plates are huge! I'm guessing they help in the side to side stability of the car as a whole, but do they really need to be that big?

stability is not what they are for. the more aggressive the wing, the larger the vorticies it will produce off the tips, and without large enough end plates the vorticies will spill over, reducing the effective span of the wing and increasing drag. In those pics those are a bit oversized for a single plane with minimal optimization, but I'm betting they were optimized for the dual element design as a base in which case the size is about right.

[i3igpete]

also keep in mind with the double element wings, the end plates are structural. they have to transfer the load from the top element to the bottom element.

but yeah as chris said: when it comes to wing tip vortices, bigger enplate is always better.

[MR2]

I must get around to mounting mine at some point

what's the cord length they are quoting?