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Originally Posted by Dragoneye
Not so much by creating down force like a spoiler, but a relief of under hood pressures and some "up-force" by letting the air that get shoved through the radiator escape out the top of the engine bay, rather than being forced down below the vehicle.
You'll see many LeMans cars (Like the C6.R Corvettes, for example) have a HUGE heat extractor vent in their hoods that deflect almost all of the air from the radiator out over the top of the car. This is the same idea to a much milder extent for the Z28s purpose as a badass street car.  |
Ok I see what you're getting at. Though the reverse hood scoop of a C6.R vette looks much more aerodynamically designed to let air escape over it than this rendering, and even the spy photos, no? The vette's is a clean, unobstructed exit path, whereas the camaro is impeded by a grill/louver design.
Not saying you're wrong, because of course I do not know that.
Personally, I'd rather have a single big working scoop like the GT500, I wont be driving this thing fast enough to see the effects of a heat-extractor up-force thingy
