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Made it back from Lime Rock Park in one piece and I posted a new personal best while I was at it. Did go off once because of the rear end being skittish at first.
Does anyone knows anything about the performance effects of canards?
Mine are all cheap, thin plastic. 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/1.5 hours at LRP. yesterday.
What has happened is the rear end is looser than before. Not by a lot, but noticeable. And that's with a bit more wing angle. I did have a significant amount of negative toe in the front and some positive in the rear. I need to re-check everything after my two off-road excursions. The first off was early on and I didn't lose the rear after that. I made adjustments and got it to settle down quite a bit with the damper valving on the JRZ RS Pro3's, and tire pressure. Still need to dial in the dampers better!
Over the winter I've done a ton of stuff to my car as can be seen here in my journal.
So, with a different 4:56 rear end, stiffer springs, 3-way racing dampers, increased camber, bigger tires, lower car, by 1/2" (to 13" in the front) AND the canards, I'm a bit reluctant to say the Canards did it!
I did a personal best of 1:02 at Lime Rock Park, a track I know very well.
I was 1.3 MPH slower than when my 2022 BRZ was one year old with no canards and smaller 255 Hoosiers. Yesterday I was less than 2 tenths slower.
Any thoughts about empirical data (or any data) about what downforce canards can generate and at what speed do the start working?
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