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Hey Guys,
I've been giving this roof spoiler thing a lot of thought. It is in the exact right location, but involves gluing or screwing a spoiler right smack dab in the middle of your lovely painted roofs.
I have another idea. I havn't yet seen one of these, but I will be building one eventually, and hopefully you guys will get your brains going too. It involves a wing/spoiler that either polyurethanes or even HD 3M double side tapes to *****drumroll******* the rear window. YES, you heard it here first, think of the location the NB turbo rear wing is. It is still high up on the car in the airflow and would be very good at preventing lift, and could be much smaller unlike the big alu wings you see farther down the rear end. By that far down, a lot of the lift has already started. Anyway, this wing could be made of fiberglass or CF, and would just be glued to the rear window.
Initial complaints will be "window, OMG, that's too weak!", but really, A: how fast are you going to go in a bug, B: how big a wing is it going to be C: if it really pushed down on the car that much the roof spoiler would dent the roof right? Those rear windows are a total bich to get out, and with the load of the wings force spread out over the entire top edge of the window, I can't immagine we would ever see a window "blow-in".
I asked Carbon Joe about this, and he could probably duplicate it in CF if we make a plug that we like.
Thoughts?
Jason
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