BB -- thanks for the replies!
It has been 4-5 years since I last used a wing on an oval car (I've been running well enough with a spoiler, I hadn't given wings much of a thought), and the cars have changed so much, and back then we ran the wings on the POD and not the BODY, etc., etc. so I am almost starting over at the beginning.
I had always thought the way you seem to (that a proper sized spoiler is the way to go) but I keep getting beaten by guys running wings...?
This is the tricky part about oval setup -- getting that last 0.1 second per lap that gets you into the 'A' instead of the 'B'... I finally gave in on the idea of trying a body mounted wing after a frustrating weekend where I changed gearing over a 2-3 tooth range on the pinion and still ran virtually identical runs every time (using a pinion range of 31-33, I ran 4 runs that were ALL 61 4-flat, ranging from 4:00.40-4:00.94)... FRUSTRATING! Something in the handling "package" had to be wrong, and I had played with tires and tweak and finally decided that maybe the "wing" guys were right... (To be honest, my heart's not really in the wing test, but I have to try it just to see...)
[This message has been edited by tfrahm (edited 02-22-2002).]