Funny Dude!!I think you are full of shit. You guys are racing the new badass 140hp 20" travel Canam sxs with paddle shift. You cant b.s. us that Canam has not commited to a sponsorship for the top desert racing Canam team. I cant wait for the "Badass" version of the new Canam sxs. Will it come in another color than booger green?
Where is your droop limit set at relative to the ground, and what is the max operating angle you are allowing your cv's to endure? Because lets face it, every UTE that I'm aware shares the same limitation regarding wheel travel. Deck height. Lots of room left for the cv's to deflect if the ground would allow it! At full droop, we have 21" of ground clearance, and that is only allowing 26-27* of max deflection on the cv's. I don't think that a car that tops out around 80 mph needs more than 17 or 18" of wheel travel anyhow. Just my opinion.
So, here is the modification that I was referring to regarding air velocities and high/low pressure zones. I opened up the existing pattern in the metal protective exhaust plate that runs below the #1 cylinder header pipe. I also will have our good friends at Factory UTV modify yet again, the hole pattern that they cut into the skid plate. There are a couple of additional things that I am currently trying regarding the CVT cover and exhaust shrouding that I am not yet ready to disclose. (what's the use of showing you all something that I am not convinced works or not, right?)The Motor Pan:
The original pan got bashed up so hard into the motor, that the back half wasn't salvageable! I used my skills as a Journeyman sheet metal mechanic, and my handy 10 ton "H" frame bottle jack press to form up a replacement section. I still need to flare out the drivers side rear flange to allow clearance for the transmission housing, and drill a tranny fluid drain hole in it as well. Notice how I implemented the angle iron stiffener attached to the sway bar housing to offer full support for the metal pan, as well as a solid backing to slide in a couple of "clip nuts" for mounting the skid plate. It slices! It dices! It chops! It's the Ronco angle iron support bar, all for just $2,995.00
With the 1/2" thick Factory UTV skid plate, I'm debating on whether or not to even put back in the factory perforated exhaust pipe protection guard that ran parallel to the frame rails. Probably a good place to open up the skid plate a bit to let some of that hot exhaust gas seep out the bottom of the pan instead of floating up into the CVT cover.
Lesson time:
The higher velocity airflow below the skid plate versus the lower speed of the air above it, will cause a low pressure zone on the outside of the skid plate, right under the exhaust pipe, "pushing" the hot air out the bottom of the car. It is one of the fundamental principles of aerodynamics known as "Bernoulli's Principle" which states that with increased wind velocity, the pressure decreases. Its the same thing that makes airplanes fly. Notice how the top of an airplane wing is curved up (convexed)? This forces the air that is flowing over it to speed up, so it meets with the air flowing under the wing at the same time when it reaches the rear of the wing. The high pressure zone below the wing is what gives the wing lift, and keeps the airplane afloat!
Ever notice a convertible on the freeway driving with the soft top up? It seems odd that the top is bowing upwards, as if it were being "pushed" up. Well it is, due to the fact that the wind on the outside is blowing faster than the wind on the inside. The result is a high pressure zone on the inside of the car. A dragster wing is another good example of this principle that Mr Bernoulli, an italian physicist discovered in the mid 1800's. It is basically an airplane wing turned upside down, netting the opposite effects on the dragster than it does on a plane. The idea here is that the space that the faster air is vacating needs to be replenished with new air, which it gets from the adjacent slow moving air zone. See it now! YAY!
Thanks MDD! I'm still waiting on word about the 140 hp, 20" wheel travel, paddle shifting Mav that you conjured up! Hey! Heads up! Right now on NBC sports is the Mint 400. The second hour of coverage is starting now. Last year, the 2nd hour was reserved for UTV's and the "other" classes of the race. Polaris is a presenting sponsor of the event, so Can-am fans beware! We ran up front all day in that race, and missed the win by 5 or 10 minutes, so there should be some Monster coverage. We're talking, and people are listening. Let's keep up the yapping and we'll have our day!
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and post race repair of the driver side front lower a arm. Another example of how weight, as a tool of redundancy, has a place on a race car. I can thank this SF 250 incident for the welding jig that I now have to fab our new rear arms with!
I appreciate your interest in our efforts. Stay tuned to this thread, as I will be using it as a diary of sorts all the way up to the V2R race in August. I thoroughly cover with pics and verbage, every aspect of preparing and maintaining a class 1900 race car. There's a lot to be exposed, and a lot to be learned, so tell a friend and don't be afraid to ask questions! I don't know everything, so I enjoy when readers offer suggestions as well. Thanks again for your support!
I appreciate your interest in our efforts. Stay tuned to this thread, as I will be using it as a diary of sorts all the way up to the V2R race in August. I thoroughly cover with pics and verbage, every aspect of preparing and maintaining a class 1900 race car. There's a lot to be exposed, and a lot to be learned, so tell a friend and don't be afraid to ask questions! I don't know everything, so I enjoy when readers offer suggestions as well. Thanks again for your support!
