Interesting carbon fiber body kit

[TaycanNJ]

Just saw these pictures on Paul Miller Porsche's instagram. Anyone know what this kit is? Not sure how I feel about it, but I'd like to see it in person!

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[kempez]

It's one of those that some (very limited), elements are not too bad, but overall it is well overdone. A bit 'Mansory' for me.

 

[TaycanHero]

Looks awful and lord knows what effect it has on aerodynamics/range.

If it looked good then that wouldn't be such a problem, but so often these body kits look like a TAMIYA RC car crossed with a 19 year old boy racer's idea of "cool".

I've seen some Tesla Model 3 body kits that were equally amusing (because it looked so ridiculous).

 

[Archimedes]

Hideous.

Good thing it’s got four outlets for the quad exhaust.

 

[Rob28]

pretty sure thats the CMST carbon fiber kit of the Taycan - not a huge fan of the rear.

https://cmsttuning.com/en-ca/collections/taycan-1

 

[Dabz]

It looks like my 7 year old took a tacan and some lego and "made it better"

 

[mutanthands]

Looks like it’s trying to give birth to another Taycan.

 

[f1eng]

A career in motor racing optimising aerodynamics and using carbon fibre as a structural material leaves me loathing this sort of thing,.

 

[XLR82XS]

No.

 

[Cooler]

A career in motor racing optimising aerodynamics and using carbon fibre as a structural material leaves me loathing this sort of thing,.

Well said Keke.

 

[f1eng]

Well said Keke.

I’m the one on the left, the designer not the driver. The 1982 car was the first car I used structural carbon fibre for something other than wings and wing mounts.

 

[Cooler]

I quite fancied the partial black paint scheme depicted here: https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/cheap-mod-for-aero-s-wheels.5462/

I’m the one on the left, the designer not the driver. The 1982 car was the first car I used structural carbon fibre for something other than wings and wing mounts.

Very cool. Did you design the monocoque of the car? When did you stop working on F1, or have you stopped?

 

[tigerbalm]

A career in motor racing optimising aerodynamics and using carbon fibre as a structural material leaves me loathing this sort of thing,.

Came for this comment! Was not disappointed!

I find these questions easily answered by this post: https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/stock-vs-custom.4079/

 

[ciaranob]

The only mod on this car of any merit might be the wheels, albeit nothing terribly special there TBH, - but the godawful mess of other glued on franken-bits is simply horrendous - wow!

 

[f1eng]

Very cool. Did you design the monocoque of the car? When did you stop working on F1, or have you stopped?

The 1982 chassis was aluminium honeycomb the ground effect sidepods were carbon skins on a nomex honeycomb core.

I was responsible for evaluating anything new, once I had found how useful carbon was we head hunted a specialist.

My main every day responsibilities were the aerodynamics and setting up the car at the race track.

I started working by writing a computer programme to optimise suspension geometry in 1971/2 ended up working part time for racing because of that then full time from 1976 until 2009 when I retired.

F1 is nothing like as much fun now, there are about 75 engineers doing what I did, obviously in more detail but nowadays there are almost no engineers left in F1 with broad knowledge, Adrian Newey is probably the youngest (he was my successor at Williams) and he is in his 60s.

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