Simply put, what is the purpose of roof scoops on front engine racers? The only thing I can think of is brakes and maybe differential cooling, but these are both rather far from the roof. As an example this bmw z3 from lbf666's racing cars thread.
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Simply put, what is the purpose of roof scoops on front engine racers? The only thing I can think of is brakes and maybe differential cooling, but these are both rather far from the roof. As an example this bmw z3 from lbf666's racing cars thread.
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Driver cooling and in case of rallying the nav as well.Originally Posted by gregvl52
That's an odd Beemer, those are full on night-time rally lamp pod and yet it looks low slung as racer. I've not seen such poor aerodynamic lamps on any endurance racer before. Are we sure it isnt' just rice ?
EDIT: It IS an endurance racer ...
ath the Zolder 24hr in 2002.
MAN must slow it down LOTS at night
Last edited by Matra et Alpine; 11-19-2004 at 03:46 PM.
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Sorry i know your new and everything but this was covered a while ago.
Peter i dont think that it is Rice or atleast i hope it isnt. but i usppose in some wasy i wish it was, i wouldnt want to think that any racecar designer that makes enduro cars could come up with something that looks like that
Cedric - I sound like a chipmunk on there. Some friends of mine were like, "were you going through puberty?" I was like, no I was already 20, I just sound like a girl.
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Whoa! look at the huge lights on that first pic!hahaha...
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All rally cars have those kind of lights for late-night driving conditions.... you should see the output on them, its intense.Whoa! look at the huge lights on that first pic!
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'64
Driving round a track, which doesn't have streetlights, in the dark, at high speed. Or indeed tight unsighted rally stages.Whoa! look at the huge lights on that first pic!
You need to be able to see a long way, hence the need for powerful lamps.
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are they like those new spotlights for 4WD's that provide visibility out to 1.7km? if they're that powerful damn u could probably see them from space
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A scoop on the roof
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even Prodrive 550 has it.....I think it might be more effective than NACA beside the side mirror for directing air into the cockpit to cool the driver, modern front engine LM-GTS car(C5-R, 550 GTS, Viper GTS-R...etc) all have pretty serious driver cooling issue being with a massively powerful motor up front and pretty closed up cockpit for aero reason.....
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for the driver and navigator
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And for the ricer who thinks it's "cool."
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Stock cars have them, but on the rear window, they cool the dif.
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That's not a roof scoop, those are rear-quarter window inlets and they also help cool the driver and give him some fresh air to breath.
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