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#736
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Good info/comparison. I believe the price of the laser stuff has come down to a reasonable amount lately. But yes probably still a fair amount more than the shock pots.
What at I am wondering - what's the difference between the data gained from each that may make one or the other more useful for testing/tuning aero and suspension setup? The laser directly measures the ride height of each of the 4 corners, but that's all it does right? The shock pots measures the shock travel, which can be mathed out to equate to a wheel height, which can be correlated to a ride height, correct?
What at I am wondering - what's the difference between the data gained from each that may make one or the other more useful for testing/tuning aero and suspension setup? The laser directly measures the ride height of each of the 4 corners, but that's all it does right? The shock pots measures the shock travel, which can be mathed out to equate to a wheel height, which can be correlated to a ride height, correct?
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Good info/comparison. I believe the price of the laser stuff has come down to a reasonable amount lately. But yes probably still a fair amount more than the shock pots.
What at I am wondering - what's the difference between the data gained from each that may make one or the other more useful for testing/tuning aero and suspension setup? The laser directly measures the ride height of each of the 4 corners, but that's all it does right? The shock pots measures the shock travel, which can be mathed out to equate to a wheel height, which can be correlated to a ride height, correct?
What at I am wondering - what's the difference between the data gained from each that may make one or the other more useful for testing/tuning aero and suspension setup? The laser directly measures the ride height of each of the 4 corners, but that's all it does right? The shock pots measures the shock travel, which can be mathed out to equate to a wheel height, which can be correlated to a ride height, correct?
Technically either can be used to measure the distance between two points. One could setup the laser system to read the shock travel, or the distance between the chassis and ground. Similarly, the linear pots may not be explicitly connected to measure shock travel, depends on the attachment point. I've seen cantilever setups in some FSAE blogs for example.
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I'm not sure exactly which is ideal for aero. Hoping for someone with real world experience to jump in. My one thought is if you're looking for load added to the suspension, using the spring rate as a known constant, determining force isn't too bad. Measuring ride height has some other factors I'd imagine, not sure if practically it matters or if it's easily compensated for.
Technically either can be used to measure the distance between two points. One could setup the laser system to read the shock travel, or the distance between the chassis and ground. Similarly, the linear pots may not be explicitly connected to measure shock travel, depends on the attachment point. I've seen cantilever setups in some FSAE blogs for example.
Technically either can be used to measure the distance between two points. One could setup the laser system to read the shock travel, or the distance between the chassis and ground. Similarly, the linear pots may not be explicitly connected to measure shock travel, depends on the attachment point. I've seen cantilever setups in some FSAE blogs for example.
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jedibow (Dec 25, 2017)
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After doing some thought, and research I was wondering everyones thoughts on a false floor, so basically a flat floor ran under the car, but separate from the body, with a gap between the car and top of the floor. The wheel wells and sides would vent above the false floor increasing pressure above, and the lower pressure below would cause the false floor to pull down on the car.
George
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After doing some thought, and research I was wondering everyones thoughts on a false floor, so basically a flat floor ran under the car, but separate from the body, with a gap between the car and top of the floor. The wheel wells and sides would vent above the false floor increasing pressure above, and the lower pressure below would cause the false floor to pull down on the car.
George
George
EDIT. Found one of the pics here:
#742
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After doing some thought, and research I was wondering everyones thoughts on a false floor, so basically a flat floor ran under the car, but separate from the body, with a gap between the car and top of the floor. The wheel wells and sides would vent above the false floor increasing pressure above, and the lower pressure below would cause the false floor to pull down on the car.
George
George
What you're proposing is the same as why you don't see lots of front wing setups combined with very large front splitters. You get a high pressure zone above the wing, a low pressure zone below the splitter, but the pressure zone between the wing and splitter work against the differential across the wing. It's not the case every time but most of the time that's the result.
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jedibow (May 9, 2019)
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Eh, creating pressure above the false floor means the pressure differential between the top and bottom of the car goes down. Are you thinking of doing this as a means around a "no flat underbody" ruling? Or just trying to think out of the box? If the later you're better off just making a flat underbody.
What you're proposing is the same as why you don't see lots of front wing setups combined with very large front splitters. You get a high pressure zone above the wing, a low pressure zone below the splitter, but the pressure zone between the wing and splitter work against the differential across the wing. It's not the case every time but most of the time that's the result.
What you're proposing is the same as why you don't see lots of front wing setups combined with very large front splitters. You get a high pressure zone above the wing, a low pressure zone below the splitter, but the pressure zone between the wing and splitter work against the differential across the wing. It's not the case every time but most of the time that's the result.
George
#745
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The double floor concept will only work if u can create a pressure differential between the 2.
Honestly i havnt seen it on any of the top time attack cars yet and they are kind of at the epitomy of car aerodynamics especially when it comes to saloon cars. Kyle.Engineers has great youtube vids which could give you some good ideas to do with floors.
Honestly i havnt seen it on any of the top time attack cars yet and they are kind of at the epitomy of car aerodynamics especially when it comes to saloon cars. Kyle.Engineers has great youtube vids which could give you some good ideas to do with floors.
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jedibow (May 13, 2019)
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The double floor concept will only work if u can create a pressure differential between the 2.
Honestly i havnt seen it on any of the top time attack cars yet and they are kind of at the epitomy of car aerodynamics especially when it comes to saloon cars. Kyle.Engineers has great youtube vids which could give you some good ideas to do with floors.
Honestly i havnt seen it on any of the top time attack cars yet and they are kind of at the epitomy of car aerodynamics especially when it comes to saloon cars. Kyle.Engineers has great youtube vids which could give you some good ideas to do with floors.
George
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