Front lip spoilers
02-26-15, 07:07 AM
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None of the lips in this thread offer downforce. They're all cosmetic. A real splitter has a dead flat bottom side and enough surface area to make it completely ugly and impractical for street use. Using the criteria "it hasn't come off yet" means absolutely zip in terms of generating useful downforce. I've only seen one front lip in the IS-F forum capable of making a difference on a track and it's on a real racecar.
(now what's your opinion of the Toms flat-bottom undercarriage diffuser? Not the bumper/diffuser, the one that actually looks like a diffuser.)
02-26-15, 05:50 PM
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By itself, it's pretty much cosmetic like all the rest. If you were to flat bottom the car and do some aerodynamic studies, it might be a significant help. The biggest problem is, the number of people racing this platform is tiny, so any R&D on parts has little market value. That just means no one is going to spend a lot of money developing actual working parts for the public to buy. No ROI. It's the same reason no one has cracked Toyota's ECM. No market, no return.
02-26-15, 07:21 PM
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By itself, it's pretty much cosmetic like all the rest. If you were to flat bottom the car and do some aerodynamic studies, it might be a significant help. The biggest problem is, the number of people racing this platform is tiny, so any R&D on parts has little market value. That just means no one is going to spend a lot of money developing actual working parts for the public to buy. No ROI. It's the same reason no one has cracked Toyota's ECM. No market, no return.
I was afraid of that...I need to get an undercarriage photo of the car and see what I'd need to do to fabricate some flat panels, if it's possible.
12-29-15, 10:53 PM
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The only street/track down force package I have seen for the IS-F that has been tested and is legit is the CCS-R package made by TRD hence the reason you have to sell body parts to buy it.lol
TRD made a similar aero kit for the Supra aswell.
TRD made a similar aero kit for the Supra aswell.
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