keep your eyes peeled on the Smartech thread on in the Onroad Nitro forums, I'm going to be posting build pics for a GTR lip, Full rear diffuser, modified wing and canards this weekend.
For those of us running nitro, a wingless car is a rocket waiting for take off permission from a little pebble (1-1.5mm will do) or even the wrong draft of air at higher speeds, ergo, they have to be larger or have some serious down force... for drifting, well, check out the SG4 Drift videos on google video, most of em don't have wings, but they pull off the drifts NICELY.[X(]
ORIGINAL: ryuhito
Lol, you should have made a poll for this. It's 3-1 in favor of the wing not doing crap. But gosh guys, it MUST give you downforce, if it's a 1/10 scale car doing 20 it's like a real car going 200 and those 200 cars always have spoilers and wings for downforce! Lets make some bumper canards out of lexan for front downforce too! All joking aside, don't you think if the wings really worked the technical guys would be using adjustable mounts and calipers and everything to make sure the wing is actually aligned correctly? Look at HPIs mounting system, for example. Move the hole on the mount a couple mm forward from the intended spot and you get lift, not downforce. Full scale race teams generally use an adjustable wing set at a very precise angle or a wing which utilizes factory mounting positions. Granted, Joe Blow with the APC Tri-Foil doesn't care how his new part is angled, and neither do R/C racers. because it doesn't help our cars much more than it helps Joe's Saturn. If anyone is actually hitting 60+ mph then you can probably ignore all of this, but if you have a 60+ car you probably aren't drifting it. Well you are but not on purpose.