Side skirts like the ones ACS manufactures for Corvettes and Camaro’s are used to reduce the amount of high-pressure along the side of the car that goes under the car. By creating a barrier along the side of your car the high-pressure areas along the top and sides of your Corvette are kept separate from the low-pressure area under your car increasing performance. When used with a splitter a solid aerodynamic package is created for maximum performance. ACS Composites C7 Corvette Side Rockers are some of the best designed and quality on the market.
C7 Corvette Side Rockers
But as always there is a downside. On a car that is driven on the street side skirts are mainly a cosmetic addition to your performance vehicle. The effectiveness of the Camaro or Corvette skirts depends primarily on how close to the ground the lower edge can be kept. That edge needs to be less than 3/4″ of an inch from the ground, otherwise, the higher-pressure air on the top and along the sides of the car will bleed under your car diminishing the ground effect and downforce.
ACS Camaro Side Rockers
However, all is not lost. Just because you will not be generating huge downforce numbers on your street car does not mean that ACS Composites C7 Corvette Side Rockers are useless. By adding skirts to your street car you will have several benefits. The largest benefit will be the added protection to your cars paint. The side skirts will block the vast majority of stone chips along the side of the car. Keeping your car looking new longer. And they are an undeniably cool looking additions to your car. So while they may not produce a lot of downforce on your street car. ACS C7 Corvette side skrits will definitely make your car look great driving down the road and at a car show.
C7 Z06 Side Rockers
