The title of this project should really be “gaining a profound understanding of the obnoxiously high cost of carbon fiber car parts.” This project marks my first (humbling) experimentation with carbon fiber.
A Rear Wing is an aerodynamic accessory used in motorsports to disrupt a vehicles turbulent airflow and produce downforce.
Carbon Fiber is praised for its extremely high strength to weight ratio and is notoriously difficult to work with.
So I thought, why not put the two together?
Who doesn’t love a bit of CAD—the final renderings (displayed above) are the result of countless iterations, refined to best achieve the project goals:
(There’s not an engineer out there who hasn’t accidentally cut a piece in x0.5 scale dimensions)
This is the “swan-neck” frame mount that I designed for the wing; it was machined from 0.16″ 6061-T6 aluminum.
The rest of my project is displayed in the image gallery below. Enjoy!
P.S. John sold his BRZ before we actually got to test it on track—but maybe that was for the best…
