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Originally Posted by Jam3s
Yeah but they're also stubborn. The aero is all CFD with no plans to take it to a tunnel to actually confirm the data and finding aero balance is an ongoing issue. They only just got adjustable rear ARB on the thing this weekend, so progress appears very slow.
They aren't being helped on the tyre front either with the front tyres being designed for the Toyotas which have a different application to the RWD of the Kolles.
The engine is the biggest woe though, hope Nismo figure out this ongoing gasket/seal issue.
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Only doing CFD is just being stubborn nowadays (or penny-short pound-foolish). Nick Wirth, who's a priest of that religion, has never developed anything good, and there's lot of racing programs compromised because of this belief in the magic of computers. The Navier-Stokes equations are computationally very hard and can only be numerically approximated in several critical areas of the car's flow.
With 3D printing there's really no point in not doing a model, it's not that expensive and tunnel time can be found in lots of places.