Now that the car was back I was also able to dummy up the rear wing. This was a somewhat grand occasion as much discussion over the best way of finally mounting it. The wing has come with predrilled hole to set the main flap’s angle. However, these don’t actually fit on my wing supports, basically as the chord is too big. This leaves me with 2 main options, either making new wing support mounts with the hole predrilled or using rosejoints and a link bar to set the angle. The second has 2 major advantages, 1 its cheaper and 2 I would have an infinite amount of adjustment, however I would have an INFINATE amount of adjustment which I really am not going to need! I have gone with rosejoints for ease for the time being, but I don’t think for one moment that I will ever adjust it once its set. There hopefully will be plenty of adjustment with the second flap!
Below are some pics of how the thing looks. I really needed to push the car out to give a really nice pic, but there was just too much stuff to move, so these will have to do.
This I thought was a nice pic and sort of shows the width of the wing. It is about 5mm narrower than the car, just to be on the safe side, and set at the max height of the car. I looked for clarification in the regs/blue book and couldn’t really find anything specific, so have gone with the older ruling. However the car is so low anyway, less than a metre, I don’t really think it can be too high!
The wing plates dont quite touch the bodywork, but they are pretty close and nice and deep!
Hopefully this its the view that most will see, although I doubt it will be! Obviously the rear is not finished yet though!
Tags: Bodywork
