Many if not most will disagree with my statement, but I have yet to see in person a REAL NSX-R wing.
I have seen what was claimed to be an OEM NSX-R wing, Downforce's replica and modified wing, and other sorry excuses for an NSX-R wing.
Up until recently, I was under the impression that the engineers at Honda designed a crappy, inefficient wing for the NSX-R, where the trailing edge of the wing was a straight 60 degree slant, instead of having the trailing edge of the wing come to a point (as it should). This would cause the wing to stall at very low speeds and create way more drag than downforce. The only 'downforce' generated by the wings i have seen is the top of the wing where it has a little lip that flips up. The underside/trailing edge of the wing looks like the Tiatec GT500 wing- which too has a vertical trailing edge, is not a true aerodynamic profile, and only creates downward force from the top half of the wing.
*an airplane wing comes to a point at the trailing edge, heck EVOs and STIs also have functional wings that have an aerodynamic profile as well.
I recently saw this video where 1:14 minutes in to it (29 seconds on the count-down --pause the video), you can see the trailing edge of the NSX-R wing, and it comes to a point! -as it should properly.
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Has anyone ever seen a real NSX-R wing, who makes one?, or a replica that is not a cheap molding with a lack of attention to detail (I know many -including downforce, will argue that their wings are a 100% replica.) but from the wings that I have seen, they are NOT. Their wings all have a straight almost-vertical trailing edge that appears to have been made for simplicity and cost savings for the 3rd taillight. It appears that the attention to detail was not made to keep the true profile of a real wing on the 6-10" on either side of the center 3rd taillight, and the vertical trailing edge of the wing follows the vertical slope of the 3rd taillight.
Unless a real NSX-R wing is pretty much non-functional and the engineers at Honda had a special one-off wing for this video/these tests.
Please, only post if you understand this post and have feedback that will contribute to the search of a real NSX-R wing. I do not want to argue that the Tiatec GT500 wing and the NSX-R wings that ive seen (pretty much all of them) are non-functional because this was covered on another post before and it isn't functional.
I have seen what was claimed to be an OEM NSX-R wing, Downforce's replica and modified wing, and other sorry excuses for an NSX-R wing.
Up until recently, I was under the impression that the engineers at Honda designed a crappy, inefficient wing for the NSX-R, where the trailing edge of the wing was a straight 60 degree slant, instead of having the trailing edge of the wing come to a point (as it should). This would cause the wing to stall at very low speeds and create way more drag than downforce. The only 'downforce' generated by the wings i have seen is the top of the wing where it has a little lip that flips up. The underside/trailing edge of the wing looks like the Tiatec GT500 wing- which too has a vertical trailing edge, is not a true aerodynamic profile, and only creates downward force from the top half of the wing.
*an airplane wing comes to a point at the trailing edge, heck EVOs and STIs also have functional wings that have an aerodynamic profile as well.
I recently saw this video where 1:14 minutes in to it (29 seconds on the count-down --pause the video), you can see the trailing edge of the NSX-R wing, and it comes to a point! -as it should properly.
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Has anyone ever seen a real NSX-R wing, who makes one?, or a replica that is not a cheap molding with a lack of attention to detail (I know many -including downforce, will argue that their wings are a 100% replica.) but from the wings that I have seen, they are NOT. Their wings all have a straight almost-vertical trailing edge that appears to have been made for simplicity and cost savings for the 3rd taillight. It appears that the attention to detail was not made to keep the true profile of a real wing on the 6-10" on either side of the center 3rd taillight, and the vertical trailing edge of the wing follows the vertical slope of the 3rd taillight.
Unless a real NSX-R wing is pretty much non-functional and the engineers at Honda had a special one-off wing for this video/these tests.
Please, only post if you understand this post and have feedback that will contribute to the search of a real NSX-R wing. I do not want to argue that the Tiatec GT500 wing and the NSX-R wings that ive seen (pretty much all of them) are non-functional because this was covered on another post before and it isn't functional.