i found some details on the calibra bumper with with numbers about the size of the cutout
of course it did not have such a large dam as your can but it's more detailed than what i've found about other cars
the original article is in
german
but i've ran it trough y
ahoo bablefish wich makes it somewhat readable in english with some goodwill and imagination.
interestingly the research diagrams show that they did a great deal of optimising, increasing the size of the cutout untill they noticed an increase in drag again.