{"id":57,"date":"2017-06-17T10:32:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T10:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/?p=57"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:49:35","slug":"rear-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Rear wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\">For a long time we had been contemplating switching to narrow rear wings from the somewhat wider wings that were on the car when we acquired it. Opinions differ as to whether the narrow rear wings are actually too narrow, even when using wheels and tires in line with original specifications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">A common \u2018trick\u2019 back in the 60es seems to be to simply cut away part of the rear wing edge, which can actually be seen on the 1968 picture of SB2237 with Elan wheels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15\" src=\"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SB2237_1968.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SB2237_1968.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SB2237_1968-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SB2237_1968-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Having changed from wider Minilites to Elan wheels and also fitted narrower tires, the wider wings did look a bit odd.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-181\" src=\"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Wide-rear-wings-Elan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3008\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Wide-rear-wings-Elan.jpg 3008w, http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Wide-rear-wings-Elan-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Wide-rear-wings-Elan-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Wide-rear-wings-Elan-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">So we decided to give the narrow wings a try. We sourced new wings from Redline and we are quite happy with the result.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-251\" src=\"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dp_seven_1_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time we had been contemplating switching to narrow rear wings from the somewhat wider wings that were on the car when we acquired it. Opinions differ as to whether the narrow rear wings are actually too narrow, even when using wheels and tires in line with original specifications. A common \u2018trick\u2019 back &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/?p=57\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rear wings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lotus-seven.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}