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aerohead · 10-21-2009, 07:44 PM

I printed the sideview shot from Bonneville and put my drafting tools against it.
The body height peaks directly over the driver's head,and forebody/aftbody is virtually a 50-50 split with body length.
I put French curves on,and extended the body contours forwards and backwards to ground level.
In "ground-reflection" the car has a fineness ratio of about 2.55:1.
Here at the copy center,I scaled the car to the template.The roofline is a perfect match.
I don't know if civil engineers build roads to different specs in Europe,however,it looks like if the car was operated in N.America it would suffer ground strikes atop driveway ramps.Approach and departure angles are 16-degrees( perfect for approach,very liberal for departure),but break-over of 10-degrees cannot be maintained under the driver seat and would impact the roadway.
Also,the diffuser looks too steep and I suspect that the Cd 0.195 could be trimmed if they altered the rear end.
She's a real sweetheart,wish they'd consider production.Hell,I might consider getting a real job to pay for one!

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aerohead Master EcoModder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sanger,Texas,U.S.A. Posts: 16,246 Thanks: 24,379 Thanked 7,357 Times in 4,757 Posts	noodling the einliter I printed the sideview shot from Bonneville and put my drafting tools against it. The body height peaks directly over the driver's head,and forebody/aftbody is virtually a 50-50 split with body length. I put French curves on,and extended the body contours forwards and backwards to ground level. In "ground-reflection" the car has a fineness ratio of about 2.55:1. Here at the copy center,I scaled the car to the template.The roofline is a perfect match. I don't know if civil engineers build roads to different specs in Europe,however,it looks like if the car was operated in N.America it would suffer ground strikes atop driveway ramps.Approach and departure angles are 16-degrees( perfect for approach,very liberal for departure),but break-over of 10-degrees cannot be maintained under the driver seat and would impact the roadway. Also,the diffuser looks too steep and I suspect that the Cd 0.195 could be trimmed if they altered the rear end. She's a real sweetheart,wish they'd consider production.Hell,I might consider getting a real job to pay for one!