Custom wing options - aesthetics or make a difference?

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Hi all

I'm liking the new custom wing options as it's much easier to create wings to suit cars (though I rarely use them to be honest - bit too 'boy racer' and I like clean car lines) however I was wondering whether the new adjustable options make any difference to the performance of a wing.

I'm not referring to the amount of downforce available in the tuning section, but about whether the height/width in particular (as these are adjustable) make any difference.

Intuitively, a narrow low wing wouldn't provide as much downforce as a high wide wing (depending on air flow over the car) but I've not really been able to spot any difference in peformance, though admittedly haven't played around with this extensively yet.

Any tuners out there have a view, done any detailed testing or is this merely for aesthetics?

KV
 
All rear wings make street cars slower, so I rarely use them. Most race cars come with them so the custom options are not available. Just not something that I am going to use on a street tune.
 
I've been driving the Spirra Prototype a lot lately, testing the tunes submitted to the difficult car thread versus my own tunes and with this car the rear wing helps keep the back in line, which makes the driver more confident, thus resulting in faster lap times. Each Spirra tune is different, some don't have wings, some do, and mine have the custom rear wing. I've driven the car with different types of custom wings, as I don't like the look of any particular rear wing on the Spirra yet. I admit I never thought about the question you have brought up, however I can say my lap times are completely identical no matter the type of custom rear wing. I'm not sure if that shines much light on your question, but at least with the Spirra, it seems as though it does not matter what type of rear wing you have on the car, as the lap times are identical.
 
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I've been driving the Spirra Prototype a lot lately, testing the tunes submitted to the difficult car thread versus my own tunes and with this car the rear wing helps keep the back in line, which makes the driver more confident, thus resulting in faster lap times. Each Spirra tune is different, some don't have wings, some do, and mine have the custom rear wing. I've driven the car with different types of custom wings, as I don't like the look of any particular rear wing on the Spirra yet. I admit I never thought about the question you have brought up, however I can say my lap times are completely identical no matter the type of custom rear wing. I'm not sure if that shines much light on your question, but at least with the Spirra, it seems as though it does not matter what type of rear wing you have on the car, as the lap times are identical.
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Custom rear wing with 20 aero value only adds very little downforce, the effect can be felt on medium to high speed, but very small, it won't even hurt acceleration or top speed. Some rear wing has higher aero value, for example Ferrari 458, I added custom rear wing on my GT3 replica, and it has 220 max aero. This gives considerable effect on the car acceleration and top speed, as well as benefits on stability and rear grip - which ultimately makes the car faster in lap times.

If you want to test the effect of aero more closely, buy Mazda Rx7 Spirit R Type A '02, install custom rear wing, it has 100 max value, use my FEED RX7 500PP tune and compare the car at SSR5 with 20 rear aero, 50, 75 and 100 aero, you will feel the difference easily, higher aero gives tighter rear end, more stable and slightly reduced acceleration and top speed with max value.

The rear wing on my FEED RX7 replica is very useful as it provides added stability without too much penalty in acceleration and top speed. I tested the car for many laps at Tsukuba and SSR5.
 

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