Bring back the NACA duct.....

[richard300]

Was looking at this picture on another Thread earlier (in the Ferrari forum).



Apart from the obvious things (How awesome the F40 looks, how in my own opinion this Pozzi Blue car looks so very right, and what a great picture the photographer took) I was reminded about what a great functional styling piece the NACA duct is!

Thought perhaps a good picture thread could develop from this post from road cars, race cars, self builds, that have utilized the NACA duct.

Rich.

Edited by richard300 on Monday 31st October 14:46

[Codswallop]

That does look good in Pozzi Blu.

The Veyron Super Sport is the most recent car with NACA ducts I can think of;

[richard300]

Ah, I'd completely forgot that they were used on the Veyron SS..... Good work Bugatti!

[HorneyMX5]

Got one on my 5.


Longbridge Mill MX5-9932 by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr

[GB123]

[.:ian:.]

My Volvo S60 has one on the engine undertray just below the oil cooler

[geepee]

Probably the mst famous use of the duct.

[Matt Harper]

variation on the theme.

[TheEnd]

[Alfanatic]

There are a couple on the Italian Mobile Duct Museum:



Actually, looking at that, has a car ever looked faster?

[LongLiveTazio]

Alfanatic said:

There are a couple on the Italian Mobile Duct Museum:

[CoolHands]

Ford GT40

roadgoing one:



1967 mkiv: (plus the No 42 race car in the background. Lotus?)

[attym3]

Do these count?

[The Black Flash]

attym3 said:

Do these count?

Nope, they're outlets, your NACA duct is an inlet, designed to let air in without disturbing the airflow over a surface.

[the-photographer]

Are we talking above or below?

Most Golf's have two or three as standard!

[LotusOmega375D]

[RobCrezz]

My Evo VI has one on the bonnet aimed at the air filter

[eybic]

Renault 19 16V iirc, I used to love those.

[liner33]

RobCrezz said:

My Evo VI has one on the bonnet aimed at the air filter

Apparently the ones on the Evo's have next to no actual benefit, I suspect the same is true on other cars

[Mini1275]

Reverse NACA duct.

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And the more conventional NACA duct.