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    Automotive Creating Negative Pressure Underneath Car to Prevent Lift

    Thanks everybody, you guys got me thinking...which can be a pretty hard thing to do sometimes...LOL!
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    Automotive Creating Negative Pressure Underneath Car to Prevent Lift

    Thanks! You brought some very interesting points to think about...
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    Automotive Creating Negative Pressure Underneath Car to Prevent Lift

    I know there's nothing for free! That's why I'm on the "Physics Forum", I looking for possible trade-offs! And there are always trade-offs in life. I'm going have to TOTALLY disagree with the following statement you wrote: "..but I think if sucker fans were the answer you'd see them on...
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    Automotive Creating Negative Pressure Underneath Car to Prevent Lift

    Thanks for your input. I agree, I would definitely have to use a skirt to isolate all of areas that would be under a vacuum, and suspension would have to be adjusted to allow the skirted area to be in a constant range of a 1/2 to 1 inch from the track at all times. Battery technology has...
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    Automotive Creating Negative Pressure Underneath Car to Prevent Lift

    Thanks so much for your useful information! As for the sucction fans that I would use...they would be powered by a number of Li-Poly batteries and be able to in increase the down-force by a lot... The power to weight ratio is awesome. The overall power is very high. But lift will be an issue...
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    Automotive Creating Negative Pressure Underneath Car to Prevent Lift

    Hello, to clarify my first post, I'm re-write some of it and posting again below: I have been wondering about ways to "suck" the bottom down at high speeds. Everything is this post is related to creating a body and modifying the chassis to run in an "open class" Bonneville Salt Flats Speed...
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    Automotive Creating Negative Pressure Underneath Car to Prevent Lift

    Hello, I'm brand new to this site. I have a number of questions that I can't get answered by anybody. I want to some how create negative pressure under the car to suck the bottom of a car down using Vacuum fans (like the 1970 Chaparral 2J Can-Am racing car ("sucker car"). I has some basic...
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