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Some of the late '60s & early '70s cars being raced now as Stockers were available with factory options such as chin spoilers and duck tail spoilers (e.g. '69 Camaro Z-28, '70 Dodge T/A Challenger). I'm interested to hear if anyone has tested these styles of front and/or rear spoilers and seen any benefits either on the ET slip or improved top-end stability. Thanks - Brad
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Absolutely Zero on our 1980 Aspen (318) R/T =
Just a nuisance and a pain to R and R and purely cosmetic. We used to have to run them to claim a particular engine combo years ago that we used to run. You and your brother know the car (We ran it at some of your events) = It runs High 10s and you would not be able to tell if they were on or off from behind the wheel.
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I always wondered if the air deflector at the back of a wagon to help keep the back glass clean would help or hurt performance.
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The Olds wagon is just fast enough that the deflector helps get dust off of rear window. So it does show diverting air in a forward direction.
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First, I'm not one of the Hawks that the 1st poster believes me to be. Actually, my name is actually spelled H-a-a-k, but it's pronounced "Hawk' so sometimes that's how I list myself online. Ironically, I have a brother who lives very close to the track outside Boise, ID (he lives in Eagle), but he's a complete non-gearhead. I'm on the other side of the country, in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.
Some older articles I found on vehicle aerodynamics let me to believe that anything you could do to reduce the amount of air getting under the front of the car would be a good thing (ground clearance permitting), and could help with keeping the front end from lifting on the big end, too. What I wasn't sure of is whether the OEM-type chin spoilers were physically large enough to be functional in that respect, or were primarily cosmetic add-ons. I know the ducktail spoilers do "something", but what exactly -- and under what conditions -- I'm not sure. I did find it interesting that all of the Drag Pak Challengers have come with a front air splitter, but only the latest generation of the supercharged 354 version now has the ducktail spoiler, as well. |
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Wasn't there a discussion a while back which included first and/or second gen. Camaros trying to run the front spoiler but without the rear duck tail? Front helped while the rear hurt. Nascar shows how fractional changes on the rear makes noticeable differences in speed.
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Just Curious if your the same BRAD Hawk that use to come by Calhoun Speed in alexandria before we closed back in 2003?
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