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The Star Wars Car
An anonymous reader writes "You think you're a Star Wars fan because you own a lightsaber? Behold, the Star Wars car. Some of the comments on the forum suggests that it's modelled after a A-Wing. One of the coolest "mods" I've seen in a long time, very original and time demanding it seems."
I love the detail around the bonnet fringes especially to the bolts and "non-sheen" quality of the overall colour
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This reminds me of the Pepsi Episode I racer debut around 5 years ago
http://www.sugarfreeracing.com/images/coke/5279
Obviously this is a fan mod to his very own car, kudos
True, true, even the original site is gone already courtesy of fark:
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Whole server actually
Other links though (as mentioned there):
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?s=
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLin
http://www.spyderchat.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=1
http://www.cultofthejedi.com/funforum/showthread.
http://www.honda-acura.net/forums/showthread.php?
http://www.automotivetech.org/forum/showthread.ph
http://wraggy.com/barryboys/forum/phpbb/phpBB2/vi
http://www.scoobynet.co.uk/bbs/thread.asp?threadi
Managed to save few images.. While can.
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The gentleman's name is Shawn Crosby. His wife, Colleen, is very hot looking. They make costumes as hobbies, winning several awards at conventions. Not to mention they are both huge Star Wars fans. Her website is here. It's already down under the load, but bookmark it for future reference.
They (and I) are also members of LASFS (Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society). And I bet more than a few of them read Slashdot
I'm not crazy,I'm actively irresponsible.
http://silicon.wack.us/sdmirror/starwarscar/
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True. This guy's wife, Colleen, is very attractive. And together, Shawn and Colleen Crosby are one of the best costuming duo's in SF/Fantasy fandom.
(oddness alert, the parent post quoted Larry Niven, who is also close friends to the Crosby's. Members of LASFS and all that. See earlier post of mine for details and links)
I'm not crazy,I'm actively irresponsible.
Well, the Falcon's more powerful hyperdrive allowed it to skirt much closer to the black holes and other gravitational anomalies on the Kessel Run, allowing the ship to make the same net trip in a much shorter distance.
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Shawn is a pretty cool guy, very creative and artistic.
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Contrary to commonly held views the guy has a lovely wife. I just love how people go straight for the typical stereotypes.
Anyways, I'm about to do something against the better part of my judgement and post a link to my photo gallery where I have just a few photos of his Star Wars H-Wing car:
http://www.nonmundane.org/gallery/Bizzare/R2day
http://www.nonmundane.org/gallery/Bizzare/R2ligh
http://www.nonmundane.org/gallery/Bizzare/S
http://www.nonmundane.org/gallery/Bizzare/Sol
http://www.nonmundane.org/gallery/Bizzare/So
If I remember correctly it is either going to show up in FHM or Wired magazine among other places.
And guys, please try to not kill my server if you can handle it. I only do this as it seems like most the mirrors or image hosts are hosed right now and I think people should at least have some idea of what the car looks like.
I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that rear spoilers do have a genuine effect on countering this lifting force, although it may have been biased as it was probably in a car mag.
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From memory (unreliable) the wing (or picnic table, possibly) on the back of 80s-early 90s Ford Cosworths turned a ~400Nm torque upwards (measured about the rear wheels) into a ~500Nm torque downward. Granted, these models were rear and later 4 wheel drive, but this is about the aerodynamics of the vehicle. It had lots of Scientists names around it too, so it must be true
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If you read the whole thread, the owner (obi_shawn) shows up on page six and talks about what he does for a living:
I make action figures, hotwheels toys, props, models, and costumes for a living. So, much like a plumber that advertises on his panel van, my car shows what I do. And you'd better believe no one forgets it- I get a lot of business from being "that dude with the car".
He also uses the car to raise money for charity.
If you must, use something light. Paper decals secured with water based glue might not hurt you, but even then you are pushing your luck. Solvent based glue or paint is almost certian to screw up airbag deployment and heavy objects will be embeded in your face.
Yeah, yeah, I sound like a ninny. Old cars did not have aribags at all. They used to kill and injure people more often too. What's that one piece of the mod worth to you? I'd feel really stupid if I or one of my friends was ever hurt more than they had to be in an accident just for looks and fantasy.
As for the rest of it, it's wonderful. All I can ask more of it is that it's all secure and won't fall off in front of someone who will then freak out and kill someone.
That said, I drive a 1970 VW camper van. No airbags, manual stearing, no power assisted breaks, and me six inches behind the front bumper. You can hear large bugs impact on the front pannel. It scares the hell out of me and I'm very careful with it. I'm not, however, going to defeat any of it's safety systems, like seat belts, and I've put in later manufactured seats with head rests. One day, people with think cars without navicomps are downright reckless. I'll feel much safer as they will not be able to pull out in front of me anymore.
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This is entirely incorrect. While it is true many consumer production cars have spoilers merely for looks, spoilers can be VERY functional. You obviously have no background on this, and I am not going to get into the physics, but why do you see every rally car, and nearly every le mans car, with spoilers that have taken a fair bit of engineering to design? Think formula 1 cars have them just to look cool?
Check out the current spoiler the Subaru rally team is using. They just won the WRC, btw. It looks ugly as hell, and is unneeded weight. Think they are just trying to rice out the car to look cool drifting through dirt?
Their production car based on the rally car, the Impreza WRX STi, also bears a spoiler similar to this. It creates significant downforce as low as 60mph, and its functionality has been confirmed by STi as well as prodrive.
Your understanding is not entirely correct however. There is another significant force at work. As air travels past the rear window, there is turbulence created, as Im sure you know. By creating a box, the air is forced to travel in a defined path. This indirectly counters lift by eliminating turbulence, an alternative to the plane wing approach which uses downforce to directly counter lift. Some spoilers actually incorporate both of these concepts.
BTW, RWD, FWD, or AWD, its entirely irrelevant.
Slashdot this, he says:
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http://cs.baylor.edu/~wilsonj/xwing.html
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Here's the only one I could find. Not much detail, but you get the idea.
er, spoilers dont create lift.
they create negative lift, how much depending on the design.
they also improve airflow around the car.
So you get more grip for high speed cornering, and generally a slightly lower top speed, although it depends on how much downforce the spoiler creates.
Some spoilers might actually increase top speed, simply because they are designed to produce very little downforce, and improve the aerodynamics of the car because of the air flow is better.
But even these spoilers will create some negative lift.
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A spoiler (like the upswept rear of the "Whale Tail Porsche) "spoils the lift created by the vehicle's body.
The body of a car shaped generally like the cross section of a wing, creates lift because of the Bernoulli Principle.
In order for the Bernoulli princlple to operate, airflow over the body (or wing) must be laminar.
A spoiler "spoils" the laminar airflow by creating turbulence.
A spoiler can also increase top speed if it is designed to create pressure (actually "spoil" the vacuum) at the rear of the vehicle by causing to turbulence fill what otherwise would be a void at the immediate rear of the vehicle's body. Instead of a smooth laminar flow of air that meets some distance past the end of the bodywork, leaving a void (vaccum) at the immediate rear of the body work, a spoiler can create create a high pressure area there, resulting in forward force and higher top speed.
So, a spoiler is generally an intrusion into the airflow across the smooth upper surface of a automobile body; often a pronounced upturn of the rear edge of the trunk lid/rear engine cover.
A wing is an inverse airfoil that is usually mounted above the vehicle's body and is not intended to spoil the lift-creating properties of the vehicle's bodywork.
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Here you go. (yes the pic is his wife, from a post in another thread).
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This one?
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Mirror attempts:
http://www.danamania.com/starwarscar/
http://dephine.zapto.org/Slashdot/
http://www.jeffwilhelm.com/files/images/swcar/
http://cs.baylor.edu/~wilsonj/xwing.html
Would anyone else like to try? Of course, its probably too late, as all mirrors have been slashdotted...
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