Miata LFX Swap (Singular Motorsports & Good-Win Racing)
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Managing the air that passes through the car.
Hood venting:
The louvers pull pressure out of the engine bay to optimize airflow through the coolers and reduce lift. It's rather incredible how well they work - with the radiator just venting into the engine bay like normal the louvers will pull the majority of air that passes through the radiator up and out through the hood. Since this car is about getting that last little bit everywhere, I'm also ducting the radiator's exit up towards the hood vents to maximize front downforce.
Work in progress:
Finished duct:
The ducting directs the radiator exhaust directly up to the larger middle two vents and isolates that flow from other pressure sources I'll be playing with in the nose of the car.
Hood venting:
The louvers pull pressure out of the engine bay to optimize airflow through the coolers and reduce lift. It's rather incredible how well they work - with the radiator just venting into the engine bay like normal the louvers will pull the majority of air that passes through the radiator up and out through the hood. Since this car is about getting that last little bit everywhere, I'm also ducting the radiator's exit up towards the hood vents to maximize front downforce.
Work in progress:
Finished duct:
The ducting directs the radiator exhaust directly up to the larger middle two vents and isolates that flow from other pressure sources I'll be playing with in the nose of the car.
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More fab this weekend of various small bits, then drove the car around on the street to do some datalogs. Confirmed, car is loud and moves with urgency.
Back in the shop, mounted up a small wing I've had sitting on the shelf since it was built by Kognition two years back.
Back in the shop, mounted up a small wing I've had sitting on the shelf since it was built by Kognition two years back.
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Another angle from this weekend shows it:
I revived the pics in my old 2013 post about making it in my build thread:
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You can use XFLR software (XFLR5) to create airfoils and simulate them. Select an appropriate family of airfoils according to your needs, then tweak them until you get your desired results
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Sorry, I share a lot about this build considering that I'm building a car to compete with (which usually means you play your cards very close to the chest), but I'm not going to share Kognition's profile design because that's the product of their own hard work and R&D.
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It's just about the most aggressive single-element profile possible without separation at max angle of attack. Lots of similarity in profile to an F1 main plane, because they did indeed acquire a few F1 wings during development. AFAIK they then made a few tweaks based on CFD since obviously an F1 wing is (almost) never a single element.