What to do about front downforce... (I don't wanta bumper)

[zen]

i've been debating the same thing. i am probably going the splitter route, but not sure yet.

[beetle1303]

why dont you place a splitter underneath the front of your beetle like the one that f1 cars have today. i mean in a way that its not visible from outside unless if you lift the car, an d like this you can keep the clean look of a bumperless beetle.
Just a thought.

Chris

[judgie]

hello mate
been looking into this for some time and you have 2 options open to you.
1.stop as much air as possable from going under the car.
deep front spoiler/airdam and splitter + dive planes on the out side edge of the wings
2.make the route under the car as quick and smooth as possable.
smooth entry under the front of the car into a flat floor pan from the leading edge of the car to a defueser at the rear.
remmeber if you do anything to the front you need to do somthing to the back.
thare is loads of info out thare you just got to find it.any thing you do will dramaticaly change the way your car looks and handels.
good luck with the black art of areodynamics and put some pic's up.i will when i'm done with mine.
cheers rob

[VRSICK]

Ok, well let me show you what I am doing to the rear already, and this will give you an idea why I want to keep the front as clean as possible.


Heres my baby:



She's still got alot of work to do.

[VRSICK]

Heres the G60 engine, obviously bigger than the stock 1600.

[VRSICK]

(BTW, why can I only post a few or one images per post, and then wait 30 secs until I can post again )

[VRSICK]

And finally, heres my 'over the top' solution



Now, I realize that the spoiler will provide some downforce in the rear, which is great, and hopefully it will look like it was meant to go there, but I refuse to put bumpers on the car. Origionally I wanted to put 356 bumpers (the car is sopposed to be made after my dad's '60 super 90) but I was quick to find out that the bumpers had a fitment problem on the bug. The euro bumpers won't due either, since I would on;y settle for the 356 ones, so now i'm stuck with a down force problem in the front. I was thinking of something like this:



But maybe carbon joe can do something like that, so we wouldn't have to get it from over seas... I got a guy that works in fiberglass too, maybe he can cook up sometihng for me, but i doubt it, this isn't his thing.