(KVRC) TeamFuria TF14T

[machin]

i dont understand why the roll hoop air inlet is feeding air to the rear of the transaxle.

That is just streamlining... I think it looks very good! fingers crossed for an improved result!

[CAEdevice]

There are same points that I'd like to have on my car (front wing, sidpods winglets, the small witdth of the sidepods) but I did not included them for Monza because I could not make them work as expected.

It seems that your rear wing is in a medium downforce configuration. For Monza my flaps are thinner (as you can see at thils page: http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... 66#p505966). The DF generated by my rear wing is about 500N for Monza.

Thanks for sharing your pictures and data!

[AratzH]

Your car looks great CAEdevice. I can see big improvements in the modeling process.
I did choose a "medium" downforce set up for monza, mainly because my car has have a low drag in the other events.
My Monza rear wing makes around 660 N of downforce, and I get around 600 for the front. I think where I loose the most downforce compared with Variante and CSR is in the floor. I can barely pass 550N...
Just as a curiosity, are you using some know airfoils in your wings or did you just made them in purpose?

[CAEdevice]

Hi AratzH.

No, I'm not using known airfoils: I use a very simple profile composed by three arcs and I run a quick optimization studing the flow.
What surfaces do you include into "floor" definition? I include the reference and step surface but also diffuser. If you mean only the flat part I should measure the downforce to compare it with your value. Let me know and I'll give you the exact data as soon as I'll come back to office.

[AratzH]

My car is an assembly and each part in made separately, so it is easyer to optimize. The "subparts" that make the floor are shown in the following picture:



So what I call floor downforce is made of the flat parts pointing to the floor (plane and step plane), the diffuser, and the flat parts of the upper side.

[CAEdevice]

ok, the same for my car. I'll measure the floor DF as soon as I'll be back at office (next tuesday). I have not enough cpu power at home

PS: We should ask SWX for a sponsorship (joking)

[CAEdevice]

I think where I loose the most downforce compared with Variante and CSR is in the floor. I can barely pass 550N...

Hi AratzH, here is the value of my floor DF: 580N, not much more than yours

[AratzH]

So, CAEDevice, we are pretty close in DF levels this time. I think it will get to see who has the less drag!

Now some interesting comparissons:



Front wing is getting pretty close to what F1 is, at least in qualitative terms.