aero whiskers

[barong77]

me to on my sv rivets do the trick well, also on looks alone worth another 5bhp and half a sec of the 0 to 60 time at least, bling is the future. 🥰

[simonbell]

Doubt if Mr SVA would be happy with them.......they might slice someone's finger off when you run over them.

 

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[barong77]

is that before or after the nose cone has removed there feet /shins/head. 😔

[akakubi]

Thanks for all the advice!

 

Essex7, I would love to see the pictures (close ups if you have). The factory guys told me to use self-tapping screws, but I think rivets would be stronger.

[andy couchman]

After fitting mine, we got an extra 5bhp on the rolling road. 😬

 

Of course, that may have been due to changing the mapping, but I think that it was the whiskers...

 

Mine's an ol' Crossflow but having first fitted a rear undertray I noticed an effect with that, with the rear of the car feeling a bit more glued to the road. The whiskers had less effect but I'm convinced you could just feel the difference.

 

Positioning will be key, but Caterham do a very effective paper template to show just where to fit them. And the rear of the whisker is right into quite a big curve in the nosecons, so trying to fit them from the outside was a non-starter for me. Don't know if later nosecones are flatter tho'.

 

Andy

 

Andy

[MartinS]

Sorry to jump on the end of this thread, but would these whiskers have any reasonable effect with flared wings fitted? I was wondering as I understand the flared wings create a fair amount of lift at speed?

 

M.

 

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Martin Saunders

ohh, is it upgrade time? :)

[Jason Plato]

I doubt the whiskers downforce would be affected by the flares, I imagine the downforce would remain at my previously determined 71gram. The airflow over the whisker could divert some of the air from going under the flares and this could add to reduce the lift form the flares by many multiples of the downforce with whiskers alone. I would exert caution on your first drive with the whiskers as the effect could well be dangerous and result in folk laughing at you.

 

ps - your a day late 😬

 

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Taffia joint AO with Al

 

[Dickie Normuss]

😬

 

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[La vache espagnole]

The "whiskers with flares" look

 

nothing...

[MartinS]

Oddly enough, I am actually totally serious 😬

 

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Martin Saunders

ohh, is it upgrade time? :)

[Mickrick]

Faceial hair....Not good.

[Normans_Ghost]

I can't remember where I read it, but an aerodynamisist (sp?) wrote that they are purely for show as they would not create any worthwhile downforce.

 

There's a Westfield with a full front wing which looks to be as wide as the car. That will work.

 

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[J7HPC]

Surely the one of the front of the Levante is an option?

 

Rupert

 

[peterg]

There's a Westfield with a full front wing which looks to be as wide as the car. That will work

 

Norman means "The Flymo"

here 😬

 

400bhp 5 litre V8

[RichardUSA]

I thought fins were supposed to go on the back of the car. 😬

[paul jacobs]

Oh, come on you lot! Shirley you know that these whiskers have nothing to do with down force, and everything to do with smoothing out the airflow around your spring/shockabsorber units? No wonder you didn't notice any meaningful downforce Dave J. but you were going so much faster because of the reduction in drag around your front suspension. For the record, if anyone has seen my CSR, they will notice I have not fitted the whiskers, 'cause not having those big bulky spring units, I don't need any smoothing out, thank you. 😬

 

Paul J.

My CSR now back with it's new and remapped Omex ECU - Hooray no more kangarooing and 268.6 bhp / 204lb-ft :-))

Edited to add, they do look sexy though

 

Edited by - Paul Jacobs on 4 Apr 2009 17:35:55