[corradolist] Active Aero System

[josh at offthehill.org (Josh ChaitinPollak)]

Shit!

Mail clients need a "No, wait, stop!" command.

I keep doing this, I wish that mailing had reply-to-list as the  
default.... Sorry for the off topic spam.

Any advices on managing this sort of brain fart?

On Feb 7, 2006, at 6:09 PM, Josh ChaitinPollak wrote:

>
> On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Gabe Rowe wrote:
>
>> I've often thought that for a road car, an active front spoiler  
>> would be great since you could still drive it on the roads, but  
>> get the benefit similar to what you see on GT cars that have the  
>> front spoiler and just basically blocking off the front bottom  
>> edge of the car... no air flow under the car is good for traction  
>> at high speed right?
>
> I think its more the down force generated in the front more than  
> the lack of airflow that is helpful. Its all about decreasing lift.
>
> On a related note, I think some race cars and I think maybe Audi  
> production cars are using or investigating the use of dimples, like  
> those on golf-balls, on the undercarriage of cars to control the  
> airflow. A quick google search turned up mention of a Lexus, but no  
> decent links.
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss at blu.org
> http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss