[Shotimes] Do Air Dams, Spoilers, and Wings Work?

[Donald Mallinson]

Ron,

Without true wind tunnel work, you can't really say the Plus 
spoiler and gen II 93-95 spoilers (since they are virtually 
identical) don't do anything.

It doesn't take much to disturb the airflow falling off a 
trunklid.  "breaking" the airflow slightly at the back of a 
car yields big benefits way out of proportion with the tiny 
amount of spoiler needed to accomplish the goal.

The benefits are less drad and increased downforce.  The 
first can yield measureable results at regular highway speeds.

Don Mallinson

Ron Porter wrote:
> Since the spoilers on the '91 Plus through all of the Gen 2 SHOs is barely
> more than an extension of the decklid, I don't believe that any of them do
> anything practical (other than the Gen 2 holding the CHMSL!).
> 
> Ron Porter