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A//// Guy
05-11-2010, 02:19 PM
Scheides Im not riding with you any more until you put your wing back on. haha
mlomker
05-11-2010, 02:26 PM
It's the same wing that I have...they removed the APR logos is all.
FattyBoomBatty
05-11-2010, 02:33 PM
The AMS racing evo had the cables in an X to prevent just this event from happening, seems to have worked. If they were "more hardcore" (and I say that from a non-hardcore standpoint) they would have made their wing stands bolt to the floor of the trunk and go through holes in the trunk lid, then they could have had side bracing inside where you can't see it.
scheides
05-11-2010, 02:37 PM
End of that thread it shows a good diagram of what happened:

http://www.douro-oni.com/images/badWing.jpg
Constant_Project21
05-11-2010, 02:40 PM
That would be a crazy ass ride, 140+mph!!! Holy Santa clause shit..
Matt D.
05-11-2010, 02:42 PM
There are some ridiculously large wings on autocross cars that do not have side bracing and they flop around all over, I always wonder why they don't put a diagonal bar across them.
GG_9_SE
05-11-2010, 03:53 PM
Wow i cant believe the steering wheel broke wow.
96GST16g
05-11-2010, 04:48 PM
poor sabuboo even broke the steering wheel!
goodhart
05-11-2010, 04:55 PM
There are some ridiculously large wings on autocross cars that do not have side bracing and they flop around all over, I always wonder why they don't put a diagonal bar across them.

Autocross cars also don't travel at 100mph+ very often.
slowbubblecar
05-11-2010, 06:25 PM
I thought they had wings for lift off. SKip ahead to 50 seconds for the full speed view (probably way more than 150mph). A slow motion view can be seen at 2:00.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ8o38eK-KI&feature=related