Originally Posted by cgt_n_the
The downforce number indicated is missing a key part. Force is measured in an amount of force per a given area. The wing exerts 40 lbs per square inch of down force.
IMO the wing makes the car; I enjoy watching people's reaction when it deploys!
Many engineers designed it to do exactly that deploy to add down force at high speed, but hey maybe you dissagree with the laws of physics...
I don't mean to pick on you, but that is about the funniest thing I've heard today.
Force is not measured in an "amount of force per a given area." That would be pressure.
Any no, our spoiler does not put down 40psi. If that WERE the case we'd all be doing wheelies when we hit 60mph... that is if the spoiler mechanism could resist what I estimate to be about 3 tons of additional downforce at 40psi on a 6"x24" spoiler.
On a side note, never use the word you are defining in its definition. You likely don't know what you are talking about if you use the word in its own definition.
-Heb, structural engineer.