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Originally Posted by Chris Percival
Spoiler hight at the rear of a bug is a compromise between reducing lift and reducing drag.
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Though english is not my native language, shouldn't that be
increasing drag? Otherwise it wouldn't be such a compromise (?) Somehow I think that spoilers will increase drag almost always, especially if they give you downforce. Or am I getting s/th not here (although I am an engineer, just not in aerodynamics
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Thanks.
Anyone still remember the duck tail spoiler copied from the '73 Carrera RS 911 model?
They made some copies of it for on a bug engine lid in the seventies/eighties. Looked weird, but I wonder if that worked thesame for the bug as it obviously did for the 911? Porsche surely got some R&D into that design which we can use (again)...
Regards,
Walter