Ok It may have been this forum or the one, but I was reading that by taking off the SS spoiler you can actually better your mpg in the city and increase your 1/4 times..I just want to know if it would increase my mpg since I mainly do city driving and almost no highway. How would having the coupe spoiler or no spoiler affect the performance on everyday driving?

 

It would have very little affect, if any for daily driving. Especially at really low speed city driving. Unless you'd rather have the look without the spoiler. Just my .02 cents.

 

Probably no effect. The relationship between speed and drag is NOT linear, so you do not see half the drag force at 40mph that you would see at 80mph. More like 1/4 the force. So if you're spending most of your time in the city at low speed, I highly doubt you'll see any difference whatsoever in performance or mileage. The spoiler is very lightweight too, so no mileage savings there...

It's not gonna make anything WORSE. But it's not going to make any difference you can see.

 

Ok thanks a lot, I like the spoiler but if there was an advantage to removing I would, guess i'll keep it

 

No, only real advantage to removing it, as arsenal21 said, is that you might actually be able to see out of your rear window. If you care about that. It's not gonna help you mileage wise if you're a city driver.

 

Another thought that maybe nobody has thought of yet, but for us who live in more northern climates, I am really curious to see how much of a bitch it's gonna be trying to clear the snow off the back of our cars with the wing on it....

 

Someone should come out with a wing heater. I'd buy one. lol.

 

I'm playing with the notion of talking the wing so I can acheive the sleeper look. Plus, in my opinion, the wing is kinda cheap. There's too much movement when I wiggle it with my hand. It could be more solid and stable if you ask me.

 

When I took my wing off the SRT-4, I saw no improvement in city driving mileage, however I DID pick up about 2-3mpg on highway driving (speed limit is 65-75mph here, traffic runs about 75-80mph).

I also picked up ~1mph and ~.1 in the 1/4 mile.

 

I like the spoiler for the fact that it seems to block the headlights from blinding me from the cars behind me

 

Ok so I JUST took off the spoiler from my car like 2 weeks ago. I go through roughly a tank a week and the last two weeks i've seen roughly +2 mpg change in my driving habits. I thought I had just perfected driving but now that I read this I'm thinking that its probably my removal of the spoiler that has provided the benefit.

ss2fast...... It totally gives the sleeper look. Mine is 05 yellow and it pulls it off perfectly.

 

Had my SS/SC this past winter and it wasnt that bad. You can just brush it off and its not like its "that hard" to do really. Didnt even consider it an "issue" this winter really. What was worse was that salty/snowy/wet stuff dripping off the wing on to the car. Just like how water drips down if you forget to dry it after you wash it. But as far as snow removal, it really isnt an issue at all.

 

I swapped my big spoiler for a small one so I could see out of back window. Headlights behind me is no problem since I have a rearview mirror that dims down the rear headlights.

 

If you remove the spoiler we can't take off on runway strips.