Just for fun (I'm guessing) I'm posting this to see if anyone really knows anything about the performance effects of canards.
These are all cheap, thin plastic. some have a dipped faux CF image on one side. I put them on with 3M tape and then used black hot-melt adhesive to create a fillet along the top of the gap (left by the tape and the radius of the mounting lip). They withstood 121 MPH for around 80 laps at LRP. yesterday.
Over the winter I've done a ton of stuff to my car.
SEE MY JOURNAL, starting here.
So, with a different 4:56 rear end, stiffer springs, 3-way racing dampers, increased camber, bigger tires, lowered by 1/2" more (to 13" in the front) AND the canards, I'm a bit reluctant to say
the Canards did it!
What happened was the rear end was looser than before. I got it to settle down quite a bit with shock valving on the JRZ's, and tire pressure. I did a personal best of 1:02 at Lime Rock Park, a track I know very well.
I was 1.3MPH slower than when my 2022 BRZ was one year old with no canards and smaller 255 Hoosiers. Yesterday I was one second faster.
Any thoughts about empirical data (or any data) about what downforce canards can generate and at what speed do the start working?
