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Originally Posted by cfg83
aerohead -
Yup. I was reading about the Opel Calibra, a car famous (among us) in the early '90's for having a Cd of 0.26 . When they were designing the front air dam, they came across this very issue. They found that if it was too low, the drag from the air dam overcame it's benefits. It's job is to get the air past all the messy engine and front suspension components. Once it has done that, it doesn't need to be any bigger. If we did a detailed analysis of the Opel Calibra, we would probably be able to come up with a simple rule-of-thumb equation.
I read this in Car Styling issue #192, which has a continuing series on car aerodynamics :
CarloSW2 |
CarloSW2,is that mag available at newstands? I've never seen it,but I'd look for it if available to mere mortals.I'm not a student at Art Center or CALTI,or the others,hope we don't have to be.Thanks!