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Old 09-20-2017 | 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by vivo quevas

This is my PF Corvette
Love the paint! Very appropriate for the class. The rear wing, not so much. Let Kevin or Rob weigh in on this, but the original intent of the Lexan wing rule was based on the vast majority of molded wings that came with the popular Tamiya and HPI bodies back ten years ago. I have an entire box of them squirreled away from the NSX and Ebbro kits. All of these measured at or very close to the 10 mm maximum wing height they have mandated for the Lexan wings to measure. They were all pretty flat.

If the interpretation of the molded wing rules are vague enough to allow for the wing that you are running and you feel is legal, then the rules need to be made clearer to eliminate any confusion, one way or the other. The rules state "Any "SCALE" molded wings can be used. Lexan wings 10mm maximum height / side dam height." The operative word here is "SCALE". I think if you reproduced the wing on your car in real life, it would probably be 15"-18" tall. LOL

Always remember that the local track has last say on whether or not they want to enforce the wing rule. I know the CTS Series in California this year was very lax on wing height in . They did not want to turn anyone away from participating.

The last two USGT purpose built bodies to hit the market from Exotek (P Zero) and Protoform (Corvette) have their Lexan wing molded with a 10 mm cut line on them to comply with USGT rules. Honestly at the speeds these cars are traveling with 25.5T motors, 10 mm is all that is really needed. That and a chassis tuned to run a lower down force wing. You have to retune your car to accommodate the Gravity USGT tires to get maximum performance. Big difference in grip level/performance between the Gravity tire and let's say the Solaris spoked tire. It's no difference with the rear wing... you just can't throw a low d/f wing on a car tuned to run with a very large wing height and expect it to perform to it's maximum.

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