Airflow Visualization Techniques

people were like, "Ah, that's never going to work." Well, in the meantime, we had did a Tallaladega test with our air cleaner stuff. So, we had those correlation numbers. We had the chassis dyno correlation numbers. Plus, at this point, we had this thing running. And we had, you know, just static correlation just sitting running, you know, idle numbers. So, John and Ha and them guys took all those numbers and made it into, okay, this is what we're going to do. And you know, Slugger, Slugger really liked it because he his cow was the best cow we ever had on this thing. And you know, we're the first time we took it to Win, you know, Steve Mills looking at it. He said, "Wow, this thing's pretty cool." We have this big control box. I I still have the box and you could crank it up. You would be surprised. It's really not that much air. This thing we almost had to slow it way down. It would you you'd think it's like a, you know, turbo. It's going to suck the carburetor through it. It's It's not that much air, you know. 800 CFM air is really not that much because with the restriction plate, what was that like 400 something horsepower? Yeah. 380s was I think was a good one back then. But this this deal we we worked through all that stuff in this amount of time and Steve walks up and I had this control box and I think it's out in the trailer. He said, "Crank that thing up." So I did. Well, I cranked it up. He put his hand over the carburetor, you know, boom, like that. put a big old dot in his he walked away with his hand bandaged up. But it you could make it really do some some damage, but we never you never we didn't have to run it that high. We were all really surprised at how low we had to run it to simulate 7,000 8,000 RPM at Daytona or 9,000 at Martinsville. You know, it really was kind of shocking how low that was without hearing the engine run. It's like watching Spinron spin 9500. It's like that's cool, but it doesn't make any noise, so you don't have that association. So, if you were, you built this originally to test cow stuff, but it also moves air through the tail pipes. When you were in the wind tunnel, did that give you better data on the the the effect of the air cloud ne next to the car? We we dove off into that. we were more focused on the wood area and stuff and that's why you know we started getting all this data which was really super cool but it was it was so much data it was hard to decipher in a timely manner to make it useful to get to go…