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Drifter Lifter
A controllable "spoiler" for lifting up the back of a car while drifting. | |
I saw a demonstration of "drifting" the other day, and had to wonder at the guy who had a spoiler on the back of his car. As has been said elsewhere on the Halfbakery, a spoiler doesn't provide much downforce at less than 100 miles per hour. But in drifting, it seems to me, downforce isn't wanted. If
the point of drifting is to be driving around with the back tires sliding and smoking, some upward force would make it much easier to get the show started. If the back end of a car were lifted nearly off the ground, it would be easy to get the back tires to skid. So a drifter's "spoiler" should be a "lifter", I say.
Once the skid is started, increased smokage could be achieved with a spoiler that provided downward force, yes. So this idea is to take the controllable spoiler that has been suggested before, give it range of motion that includes lifting, and sell it to drifter wannabees. It may not do much good, but it could make some money.
Adjustable Aerodynamics
adjustable_20aerodynamics
Adjustable spoilers and other things. [baconbrain, Oct 13 2006]
Here was my version, there are more...
Steering-Integrated_20Spoiler
[21 Quest, Oct 14 2006]
[link]
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//Controllable spoilers are very baked// Which is why I said "take the controllable spoiler that has been suggested before, give it range of motion that includes lifting". |
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Changing from pushing down to lifting up seems to me to be a new idea. I saw the other ideas, yes, and even commented in the one linked to by 21, but never saw one that suggested lifting up. So I posted this as a new idea, AS REGARDS LIFTING, with a link and a mention of prior art. |
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After some thought, I realized that this could have been done without moving parts. Just build a lifting wing across the back of the car, and arrange the aerodynamics so that the lift goes away when the car gets sideways. |
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Ah.... I misunderstood. My apologies, and a bun :) |
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(previous off-base anno being deleted) |
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You wouldn't want to lift the back wheels too much, certainly not completely, bigsleep, even assuming you'd *get* that much lift, and you wouldn't unless you were going well over 100 mph. You still need some friction in the back to maintain control. Otherwise, a light crosswind will swing your back end out and pivot you 180 degrees, and I don't even want to imagine the results of *that*, especially with other traffic around. |
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Rockets mounted under the rear bumper might be more effective. And showier to boot! |
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