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Originally Posted by ajc209
I was planning on fitting semi slicks to my track day rims, and potentially downforce in the future.
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Element is on non-dot slicks (325's I think, but either way, big enough to warrant widebody fenders) with serious downforce (over 1000 pounds of aero. downforce) and
even they haven't reported having a starvation issue. That's cornering over 1 g, running brakes that will rip your face off, and accelerating with enough power to trash a stock transmission every 5 race days.
Until somebody actually reports oil starvation induced by acceleration/deceleration/cornering that can't be attributed to anything else, I will continue to maintain that
the stock baffling is just fine, and needs no improvement.
I will concede that Element is using a huge accumulator, which may mask starvation issues, but they started using that because of high-rpm pressure drop, not starvation.
The words "over-engineering" and "cheap insurance" have been used to justify more time, money, and effort wasted on useless equipment than all the other bullsh*t marketing and salesmanship on the planet combined. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. There's plenty of actual broke sh*t on this car that needs fixing.
The two biggest problems on this car still have no solution. This thread used to be about fixing one of those.
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