GTD Wing - Who'll Be First?

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Ford Mustang / Shelby - Smart Active Aero Wing | Victor Racing

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[NightmareMoon]

Good thing Ford isn't going professional racing with it, as active aero is largely banned from most forms of racing.

Dragracers:
No. More. Chute.
Lol.

Correct the actual racecar GTD deletes the active aero for that reason. The street car gets the active aero (which means the street car may be the faster spec?).

 

[WildHorse]

won more awards and trophys that I can remember, 32 at last count and gave them all away.

The street car gets the active aero (which means the street car may be the faster spec?).

Nah, pretty sure a race spec GTD will be a lot lighter than the street legal version.

 

[Sean22]

That would be a NOPE!

 

[Tonymustang302]

Well you aint gonna be settin' any sub 7 minute Nurburgring lap times without a wing, so you're not talking GTD level performance any more. You're back to daily drivers. Honda would be happy to sell you a mini van w/o a wing on it.

u have to remember 99% of this site will never see any sort of track and care more about style rather than function

 

[Hack]

The mounted it to the B-pillars.. one of the strongest areas of the car, so it's producing enough downforce to crush the trunk lid.

It definitely could make a lot of downforce.

I love the style. I think it looks great, but aero needs to be balanced front and rear. No way no how am I going to get enough front downforce on my car to match up with that wing.

Plus, I'm thinking you want a power adder to drag that huge thing through the air.

 

[FlatRock]

I don’t know who will be the first, but I will be the last.

 

[mavisky]

It definitely could make a lot of downforce.

I love the style. I think it looks great, but aero needs to be balanced front and rear. No way no how am I going to get enough front downforce on my car to match up with that wing.

Plus, I'm thinking you want a power adder to drag that huge thing through the air.

That's what the DRS mode is for. Hydraulics move the upper 2nd element to a stall position and also adjusts the splitter tunnels under the front of the car to keep the balance across the car even while reducing drag and downforce on straights. Then as soon as you brake it goes back into high downforce mode.

 

[mavisky]

Also, as cool as this looks, one could achieve the same results from a chassis mounted swan neck wing with a good profile. The active aero is the only "trick" part, but there are other active aero wings in the aftermarket and some on GT350's already.

The GT3 car was actually homologated for FIA GT3 racing based off of the base model S650 chassis. Then as they started development they decided to build the the streetcar very early on. During the street car design process the wing design came about and they then decided to proceed with this cantilevered C pillar mounting solution and applied it to the GT3 to tie the two cars together. The mounting design (contrary to popular belief) actually began with the GTD and not the other way around.

 

[dpAtlanta]

As expensive as this wing is going to be if it ever was to be offered, here is a cost saving alternative:

 

[tdstuart]

You might be quietly laughed at by many with that attached to the rear of your vehicle... some may like it though.
Your car... your choice.

One look at this bad boy and you will understand the gtd wing will have a market...

 

[tdstuart]

Also to answer your question MP Concepts will be the first and it will be on American Muscle. They make all the cheap low-quality knockoff wings.

 

[ihasnostang]

if you want an exact copy i suspect it will be more difficult to retrofit since it mounts to the C pillar.. assuming that the wing makes a noticeable amount of downforce, i would say a more robust mounting system would be required as the supports for the wing create a moment arm, instead of mounting directly below the wing.

 

[Hack]

That's what the DRS mode is for. Hydraulics move the upper 2nd element to a stall position and also adjusts the splitter tunnels under the front of the car to keep the balance across the car even while reducing drag and downforce on straights. Then as soon as you brake it goes back into high downforce mode.

Those features are designed to balance the GTD, not our lesser Mustangs.

 

[matthewr87]

Guys I've thought about it and I've decided to just buy the whole car instead. A bit more simple and probably more cost effective than trying to source the wing itself separately. I could conceivably ask my friends back in Markham to see if there are any in the Multimatic dumpster behind the building, but I feel like that is 50:50 at best....

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