APR PERFORMANCE CARBON FIBER GT WINGS:

When it comes to racing, every second counts. APR Performance Adjustable Wings can give you that edge to achieve faster lap times. By reducing lift and increasing downforce, you can gain extra traction during high speed cornering.

Although adjustable wings aren't specifically a suspension component, they play a crucial role to the handling characteristics of a car. By adjusting the angle of attack on an adjustable wing, you can dial in the amount of downforce for better car control. This allows your car to have more or less oversteer characteristics, giving you additional control to tune the rear traction of your car.

Carbon Fiber Wings are light weight and are very strong and durable

What Difference Does the Height of the Wings Make

Ever wonder why people put such high wings on their cars. No, it's not to make their cars to look like shopping carts. Race cars utilize high pedestal for their wings because they are positioning their wing in an area where "clean air" is located.

Clean air is basically the area of air that is flowing smoothly around a moving car. When a car goes forward, it is displacing air around itself. In the front of the car, high pressure builds up because more air molecules are being compressed from the cars front bumper and the forward motion of the car. Conversely, the rear portion of the car has low pressure because the car has displaced air molecules from the forward motion of the car. This causes a vacuum effect in the rear portion of the car. No clean air is flowing to this vacuum.

A wing can only produce downforce if it is being affected by a clean air flow. If a wing is located in the rear vacuum of a car, it has no chance of utilizing the clean air flow to produce downforce. So which wing height is best for your car.

We will cover that a little later, APR Performance Carbon Fiber Wings will help produce the downforce that you need for your vehicle.

Why Cars Need Downforce

We've all seen race cars and how they utilize aero kits, canards, splitters, diffusers and wings to help improve their performance. But why go through all the trouble to seek that competitive edge. What are the dynamics going on that makes race teams spend so much time and resources on improving their cars aerodynamics. To understand the dynamics involved with such components, it is important to know some principals of aerodynamics.

Depending on its shape, an object traveling through air will always be lifting upward or downward. If it's lifting upward, the effect is simply known as lift. If it's downward, the effect is known as downforce. Most cars lift as they travel through air because of their shape. The reason why is because of an aerodynamic principal discovered by Swiss scientist Daniel Bernoulli. The Bernoulli Effect simply states the higher the speed of air molecules traveling around an object, the lower the air pressure becomes around that object. In contrast, the lower the speed of air molecules traveling around an object, the higher the air pressure becomes.

So what type of wings do you need. It depends on the type of vehicle you have, coupe, fastback, hatchback, or a sedan. Below are some different vehicle types to help you decide.

Fastbacks/Liftbacks Coupes

The rear window on coupes and fastbacks/liftbacks usually taper down at a slight angle. This design is used to reduce drag and the described rear vacuum effect. High to mid-range wings will really work well to produce downforce for these types of cars.

Sedans

Because sedans have a steep rear window angle, the vacuum effect in the rear is much greater then coupes/fastbacks. This means that lower height wings are not positioned in an area of clean air. The best way prevent this is to put a wings higher up from the rear deck of a car into an area of clean air. High to mid-range wings will work the best for sedans to produce downforce.

Hatchbacks and Wagons

Hatchbacks and wagons have a problem… there are no rear decks to mount a wing. Fortunately these types of cars have a unique shape. Clean air flow goes over the top roof on hatchbacks and wagons. So by using a roof wing, hatchbacks can already position a wings in a clean air flow location.

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