TymeSlayer
Tramps like us, Baby we were born to run...
Nothing a little peppermint oil wouldn't get rid of...Always good to hear from a new Trackmouse, who will soon be a Trackrat, ha.
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Nothing a little peppermint oil wouldn't get rid of...Always good to hear from a new Trackmouse, who will soon be a Trackrat, ha.
I purely attribute my sub-2 lap at Buttonwillow to the 10 RWHP these TMO decals gave me!More importantly, did you notice the extra 10 RWHP those TMO decals give you?!
Chad Richardson is in there also with his GT.I just realized, Socal TT3 will soon be consumed with almost entirely mustangs.
Fulton's 350R, Ryan's 350, @5.2 liters of democracy 's 350, @67GTA 's GT and my GT. It'll be a Ford takeover, with the majority of which on TMO!
Oops, sorry Chad.Chad Richardson is in there also with his GT.
I'm long overdue for updating this so here we go.
At the last NASA event at Auto Club Speedway I was signed off to join the cool kids in TT. Miraculously I took first place in TTU on Sunday which was cool! I've had so much help and support these last few months from others in the region, especially with some pro tips from our regional TT2 champ @PaddyPrix. I'm greatly looking forward to summer wrapping up so it's cool enough to drive again. Until then, I've made some other upgrades and made some progress on a passion project. Onto the car!
Last year I had originally planned to hit HPDE 4 this year and get signed off to TT next year. That timeline was accomplished much sooner than I thought so I've pulled the trigger on the fir set of aero mods. I'm waiting on a Klaus Composites swan neck wing for the car, which I'm quite excited for.
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I managed to score some GT4 hood vents from Kohr which I should be receiving the invoice for any day. I've also been working on a front aero package with some canards and aplywoodcustom splitter with some side plates from @AJ Hartman. I'm still experimenting with how I'm going to mount this. I'll post more as I figure that out.
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Also the second he's done with his carbon airbox cover, I'll be purchasing one of those. Since the GT350 has a direct path to the airbox behind the grill, I also cut out a path for the air to get past the restrictor plate.
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Now, onto the passion project part of this. I plan to keep this car indefinitely as it was the first car that stopped me in my tracks. Because of that, I probably fall down too many rabbit holes when it comes to finding parts for this thing. I taught myself a little bit about CAD early this year and printed out some test vents for the fenders. I became really obsessed with the project and wanted to make sure what I was doing was actually going to provide a benefit so I reached out to Kyle Forster at JFK Consulting (Kyle.Engineers on YouTube, former F1 aerodynamicist for Mercedes-AMG) to do some modeling based on the design and some CFD of the final model. I plan to have these produced in carbon fiber, but here's a sneak-peak and spoiler alert: they work.
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More to come soon!
I love me some fender vents! Let us know when these are availableI'm long overdue for updating this so here we go.
At the last NASA event at Auto Club Speedway I was signed off to join the cool kids in TT. Miraculously I took first place in TTU on Sunday which was cool! I've had so much help and support these last few months from others in the region, especially with some pro tips from our regional TT2 champ @PaddyPrix. I'm greatly looking forward to summer wrapping up so it's cool enough to drive again. Until then, I've made some other upgrades and made some progress on a passion project. Onto the car!
Last year I had originally planned to hit HPDE 4 this year and get signed off to TT next year. That timeline was accomplished much sooner than I thought so I've pulled the trigger on the fir set of aero mods. I'm waiting on a Klaus Composites swan neck wing for the car, which I'm quite excited for.
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I managed to score some GT4 hood vents from Kohr which I should be receiving the invoice for any day. I've also been working on a front aero package with some canards and aplywoodcustom splitter with some side plates from @AJ Hartman. I'm still experimenting with how I'm going to mount this. I'll post more as I figure that out.
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Also the second he's done with his carbon airbox cover, I'll be purchasing one of those. Since the GT350 has a direct path to the airbox behind the grill, I also cut out a path for the air to get past the restrictor plate.
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Now, onto the passion project part of this. I plan to keep this car indefinitely as it was the first car that stopped me in my tracks. Because of that, I probably fall down too many rabbit holes when it comes to finding parts for this thing. I taught myself a little bit about CAD early this year and printed out some test vents for the fenders. I became really obsessed with the project and wanted to make sure what I was doing was actually going to provide a benefit so I reached out to Kyle Forster at JFK Consulting (Kyle.Engineers on YouTube, former F1 aerodynamicist for Mercedes-AMG) to do some modeling based on the design and some CFD of the final model. I plan to have these produced in carbon fiber, but here's a sneak-peak and spoiler alert: they work.
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More to come soon!
I'll reach out to Kyle with this question because he'll do a far better job at explaining than I can. He had a run in the queue to compare an open hole vs vent in place. My tiny little brain can nearly guarantee a lot of it has to do with managing the direction of the flow but I'm not aerodynamicist, I just stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. I had originally created the design with three exposed louvers and everything behind that was recessed. My thoughts there were the exposed would act as an air dam, for the vents in the rear to maximize extraction. Kyle significantly improved upon that design. I told him function should be the most important aspect. Some actual data I can provide is CFD is showing a 36.6 lb. gain at 100 mph in the front and about 10 in the rear (I can calculate this today). That number will increase as splitter effectiveness increases. This was modeled with AJ's 5 inch splitter. I'd like to have this wind tunnel tested as well once I get them in production.Please, please, don't make a fuss, I'm just plain yogurt.
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That part looks super fancy though. Question for you or Kyle when you do your next modeling, but curious the difference for the fins being exposed vs recessed. As I've done the season half with just exposed holes and the front hood louvers, I can tell the difference, just curious what it'd yield. Perhaps it's something more dictated by the series and their rules, but you'd see the CanAm cars of the 60s and 70s with them recessed, and 90s/00s were exposed. Is it simply heat extraction vs downforce?
That part looks super fancy though. Question for you or Kyle when you do your next modeling, but curious the difference for the fins being exposed vs recessed. As I've done the season half with just exposed holes and the front hood louvers, I can tell the difference, just curious what it'd yield. Perhaps it's something more dictated by the series and their rules, but you'd see the CanAm cars of the 60s and 70s with them recessed, and 90s/00s were exposed. Is it simply heat extraction vs downforce?