Homemade complete rear undertray / diffuser
- Thread starter greenberet
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It looks good and you can see we clearly had different goals when designing our front undertrays!
I built a completely flat front undertray and then installed little air dams in front of the wheels to reduce wind resistance further. You went a different route, using diffusers to feed air to the front wheels and wheel wells, generating even more downforce at the expense of slightly increased drag.
Ferrari built diffusers into the front undertrays of 360s as well in order to increase front downforce. For the Enzo, Ferrari not only wanted to generate high downforce in turns but also to minimize drag on the straights. So they used active aerodynamic elements including front diffusers that can be flipped up into a position like yours in the “high downforce” mode and then flipped down into a position like mine in the “low drag” mode.
In any case, it’s always a pleasure to see parts like your front splitter/undertray that were designed not just to look good, but also to be functional.
I built a completely flat front undertray and then installed little air dams in front of the wheels to reduce wind resistance further. You went a different route, using diffusers to feed air to the front wheels and wheel wells, generating even more downforce at the expense of slightly increased drag.
Ferrari built diffusers into the front undertrays of 360s as well in order to increase front downforce. For the Enzo, Ferrari not only wanted to generate high downforce in turns but also to minimize drag on the straights. So they used active aerodynamic elements including front diffusers that can be flipped up into a position like yours in the “high downforce” mode and then flipped down into a position like mine in the “low drag” mode.
In any case, it’s always a pleasure to see parts like your front splitter/undertray that were designed not just to look good, but also to be functional.
