Stathol wrote:
Sure. Both Porsche Turbo and Honda Type R stickers provide a speed boost. But the issue is a little more complicated than is frequently acknowledged.
Many beginner ricers make the mistake of getting caught up in the debate over Type R vs. Turbo stickers. You'll find countless internet arguments (and even the occasional scholarly paper!) on the topic of which kind of sticker provides the greatest speed boost, with the implication being that one must "choose a camp". Professional ricers know that this is nonsense. In fact, the whole argument is moot. A Type R sticker in conjunction with a Turbo sticker actually provides the greatest possible boost due to the synergistic effect. Decades of research has proven that each enhances the speed of the other; both stickers together provides an ever greater effect than the sum of their individual boosts.
However, contrary to what has frequently been espoused among even the professional ricer circuit, there remains little actual evidence of a synergistic effect between stickers (of either kind) and rear spoilers. The recent findings published by Smith, Paine, Richardson, and Glasgow in the American Journal of Advanced Rice Rocketry are admittedly compelling at first glance, but a deeper examination raises some critical issues with their experimentation. Primarily, Smith et al used a 1993 Honda Civic sporting Type R stickers during a number of their crucial experiments. Photographs have since surfaced which suggest that the Honda used was, in fact, an EG6 SiR-II. If these photos are genuine (and this writer, for one, has good reason to believe that they are), then this would obviously invalidate virtually all of their findings. It has been well-established that the Type R sticker effect, though still present, is greatly diminished by the presence of an actual Type R engine. Thus any results obtained from that well vis-a-vis weak spoiler-sticker interactions (a.k.a. the Paulson-Neely Conjecture) are hopelessly poisoned.
Regardless, even if the Paulson-Neely Conjecture pans out, I think it's been pretty well established at this point that the forces arising from the interaction between spoiler size and spoiler height would easily dominate over any spoiler-sticker interactions at anything larger than sub-compact scale. For most ricers, the exercise is largely academic, at best. And frankly after that whole bizarre business of the double-rims experiment, I find myself much happier when I just ignore the entire subcompact world.
Never had you pegged as a ricer guy. This is all greek to me.
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19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
Ezekiel 23:19-20
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