Doug,
As of the 1st rules meeting held on 11/07 there were no changes proposed.
Rest assured that as a practice a rule is not changed because of a single
vehicle. Rules will change when it is shown that the wording is not
inclusive enough to cover all situations.
Most people will use some sort of hinge arrangement to adjust the angle of
attack of the spoiler.These vehicles will use tape to cover the gap caused
by the hinge. The reference to using plates to fill the gap between the rear
deck and the spoiler is intended to cover the situations where the trunk lid
is curved, examples would include Studebakers and RX7s.
Again, the SCTA-BNI refers to a spoiler as a single aero surface(air over
the top). A production spoiler/wing (wording by manufacturer is not
considered) is allowed in certain applications.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com <dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com>
To: land-speed@autox.team.net <land-speed@autox.team.net>;
dwarner@electrorent.com <dwarner@electrorent.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: spoilers
>hi dan, i took a walk out to my car to get my scta rulebook and noticed all
>thes cars with air gaps between the trunklid and spoiler in the parking lot
>- ford escort, pontiac bonneville and grand am, volkswagen jetta,
>mitsubishi eclipse, nissan maxima, acura integra, dodge colt, i could keep
>going but i think you get my point. it is safe to assume that all these
>cars have production "wings" according to the scta rules ? . my apologies
>that i dont know you better but i would assume you play an active part in
>the scta rules, so i'm probably "shooting myself in the foot" based on the
>2000 rules have yet to be determined and will quite possibly change because
>of this dicussion, but i guess i might as well die trying to prove the
>legality of the spoiler on our vehicle. section IV 26 h) states a couple of
>things. first, it states that "when the spoiler is laid flat" - i assume
>that this means it can be adjusted for "angle of attack", which would
>probably require some gap unless a cheesy piano hinge setup or similar is
>used. it also states that "plates are permitted to fill in horizontal
>spoiler/body gap." so right there the scta acknowledged in writing that a
>gap may exist right in the spoiler definition. we just chose not to fill
>the gap on our spoiler - it says "permitted" , not required. and as you
>mentioned your interpretation of "a single aerodynamic surface" is
>different from ours. i guess it gets philisophical how many surfaces are on
>a flat sheet of metal?, teardropped shaped? , egg shaped?, spherical? -
>well, at least we can still run the spoiler at the drags if the rules
>change. by the way, i'm darrell's brother doug in cased you are confused
>
>regards-
>doug @ black radon engineering
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