Re: WInd Vanes?

[shikaroka@juno.com (T Jarrett)]

On Sat, 08 Nov 1997 19:21:55 EST skerocdriver@juno.com (Shawn C Meze)
writes:

>Are you talking about the wind splitters? Mounts along the tops of the 
>fenders from the front near the turn signals to the windshield?
>Ive seen them on a few cars. Supposedly they do add some downforce to 
>the front of cars but evidently its not worth it since ive not seen 
>them on race cars of today. (or wanna be racecars) I remember seeing 
>them in JC Whitney years ago. 
>I also think that Zender made or makes them? 
>
>
>
>              Shawn Meze


Yeh, that's it. I believe the ones I saw were Zender or Kaimei (sp?). I
thought they looked kind of cool. I thought they were supposed to reduce
drag, but you might be right about adding downforce.
On a side note, they also made wind vanes that fit on Rabbits (Golf I's),
that attached under the windshield rubber seal on the front door post,
supposedly they reduced a good bit of drag. Do you have any idea what I
am talking about?
Just a bit of trivia I guess.

Todd J.
shikaroka@juno.com
82 Scirocco 16V (highly modified)
87 GTI G60
72 Baja Bug & Karmann Ghia
76 Lancia Beta Scorpion
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