Which themes have been done to death? (Page 3 of 5)

Jim ID'd a bunch but he missed a few...

Done once from a Corolla FX16, but why not again?

Dallas team did the one with all the spikes down the middle, made out of a Lincoln Mk.8.

Done well with an LTD in Colorado

2 aircraft carriers I can recall, one was an LTD and I think the other may have actually been a Miata.

It better have four front wheels, and I don't mean gluing the second set on.

There was actually an aircraft carrier at the 2010 race in Chicago. It was a Cadillac painted like the Nimitz:

http://www.murileemartin.com/LC10/UG/Le … 0-030.html

No way man, if I'm going to do a JPS themed car, it's going to be historically accurate!

I'm joking of course.

Man, a sucker car would be very impressive, especially if there were actually two motors in it, (one for drive, one for the fans) like the Chaparrel above.  Huge bonus if it actually sucked (provided downforce) - not sucked like normal.

The origional Chaparrel had a 45 hp fan

If a person did a Lemons Sucker they should consider having the throttle of the sucker motor hooked up to the breaks as the harder you pushed the more it would suck. On the fast sections however you would have minimal to no suction which is exactly as one would hope.

Naw... Adjust wing size to the amount of downforce needed at given speed.

If you fear too much drag at other areas on the track simply go for some servo adjusted variable geometry. The solution need not be pretty or even elegant as this is of course Lemons.

Doh! You're right. The '70s seem so long ago...

I was actually pondering how it could be done in the front and it hit me that a pivot and levers may actually work to do the same thing while allowing serviceable packaging.

Having the force go right to the wheels was a plus as it did not overload the springs so the suspension worked better. I would want to do it more for the ability to have an air brake as anything else. It would be cool to hoist a big sail at the end of a straight and help save some pads while pressing the car down into the track to help turn in.

I would want to find some way to a) automate it and b) make it so it could be ripped off easily so it would not hurt performance when it failed.

A I think would be easy enough as something as simple as a little G switch that would engage when enough deceleration was detected and let off a set amount of time after a given level of decel was dropped below.

I would love to tinker with something of the sort and think I may actually be able to pull it off but it would mean I would need the car in the garage behind the house so I could fiddle with it in free moments and not have to make special trips. As such its not going to happen any time soon.

You are right that the Chaparral wing was right to the suspension.  I was refering more to the movable part of dsykes post.

Skid Marks did something like this for Autobahn.

The car at speed:

Sitting in the pits without the brake being applied:

And with your foot on the middle pedal:

I asked one of them if they noticed a difference.  He said he could definitely drive it deeper into the corner.

On race day they used orange tape to leave a message on the underside of the wing.  If you can find Racing 4 Nickels' video footage, you'll see it go by a few times.  It was a bit odd seeing it flap up and down as the driver modulated the brake pedal.  Of course, on race day I barely noticed.