Factory Air Brakes

Mine are also set at 120mph, with Stage Two deploying at 135mph. I would be very careful using a variable low pressure sensor, as you may experience unintended deployment in certain atmospheric conditions.

The negative g-force is serious when Stage Two opens up!

Ask me how I know!!!

I've never experienced Stage Three, which would block all forward visibility as I understand it.
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SAY WHAT. You gotta be sh--ting me.

KLATU

 

Interesting, yours seem to be the original mount and not the service upgrade with the swivel mount that gives the option to deflect them down for increased down-force - check with your Ferrari service station, they might still have a kit around...

Cheers, Niclas

 

I was led to believe the service upgrade with the swivel mount was only available for Euro cars and would not work in the states due to US downforce measurements being in PSI.

 

I think it depends whether the OP has a euro front spoiler or not...

 

The GTB's only have a half size, and the right side always seems to jam.

 

You are correct, here is a link describing (in layman's terms) the physics involved.
Rick.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag]"Turbo Encabulator" the Original - YouTube[/ame]

 

I don't believe this is true. The reason simply was that Ferrari decided not to incur the expense of US Federalization.

With the processing speed of CPUs in modern vehicle dynamic systems, I expect that this technology can also now be applied for single air-brake force vectoring while cornering. This is usually done with eDiffs, iBrakes etc, but a retrofit to a 308 GTS does not seem infeasible. This technology was banned in F1 about 10 years ago.

This is all subtle stuff. OP: You would see a greatly reduced effect by removing the wheel chock from your wheel that is shown in your picture.

 

I love the Turbo Encabulator!

I've never thought of retrofitting one into my 308... I did purchase one of the original prototypes on eBay a few years ago, so I may try to make it work...

 

For extremely high speed lateral stabilization under maximum air brake application I also have the very rare factory option that allows the headlight modules to automatically deploy independently, i.e. left or right, via the driver's seat sensor attenuation transducer. It was referred to by the factory engineers as the "seat of the pants" driver option.

Jerry
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I recently recalibrated my lateral gust deflectors on my 328 to generate more thrust compensation when making turns over 0.89g. I have them adjusted after a day on the skid pad and she handles so much better. When one side opens up during a turn the car just goes faster and faster throughout the entire turn.

 

Oops. It was glowing so brightly that I mistook it for orange plastic.

 

Did you know that the variable phasing actuators use blinker fluid? The O.E. stuff is NLA, so it's best to get a set of cloudy factory turn signals or an N.O.S. set and drain the fluid into your actuators for best performance. Replace the blinker bulbs with LEDs and make them work faster, too!

 

recommended brake shoe - Nike air
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i was able to modify the actuators by employing timing belts. Drawback, they need to be changed every 3 months.

 

Dude, seriously!?!!? You used new timing belts?!?! That's just the dealer trying to push parts sales. I know a guy that's used old takeoff timing belts and leaves them on for TWO engine timing belt replacement cycles. But it's a false economy, as I can assure you: they work better as-designed with OE blinker fluid!

 

also was optioned as thrust vector bilateral yaw attitude adjustment, careful though as that rare option is also known to 'blink' causing highly unstable vector correction. something do to with the capacitance fluid and incompatibility with the plasma driven transducers in high flight humidity. though the turbo encabulator does fix this, but it's the metric tensor option that's needed, neither the bsp or sae ones will work.

 

+1 for what Johnny Law said!

If you have a mis-deployment, at speed, on a straightaway (Like Mulsanne or I30) your vehicle will first veer hard to that side, then the blinker fluid (ONLY USE OEM!! Ask me about that fiasco!) washes over to the other side violently causing the opposite side to deploy and sets up a vicious cycle that many can't recover from!

These cars are fun but YOU HAVE TO DO REGULAR MAINTENANCE! They aren't Honda's!

Be dafe out there people.

Lester

 

I'm pretty sure Verell was working on a Metric Tensor Option that would bypass the inherent deficiencies of the BSP and SAE options. As I recall, his design includes balsa wood which has been specially fortified by an overnight soaking in Elmer's Glue.

 

I thought so too.. he is but he's a little backlogged.. should be out in a few years if he doesn't get too busy. He's trying to get official approval for putting the horsie on it and that seems to be taking up a lot of his time. Well that and the court appearances regarding the horsie on his toothbrush wheel cleaner

Lester