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optimum nose
Hucho has a chapter section devoted to the 'ideal' nose.
It's basically what R.G.S.White displayed in his 'Method of Estimating Drag Coefficients,' 1968,which is just like Walter Korff's ideal nose of 1963,which is much like Paul Jaray's nose of 1922,which goes back to the half-teardrop form Hucho uses as his benchmark.
For what it's worth,and I've mentioned this elsewhere,the 'ideal' nose on my CRX meant virtually nothing at 100-mph,which meant it's contribution to drag reduction was very little and so it's value for mpg,also very little,whereas most of the speed record and 60+ mpg came from the boat tail.
The 944 has a pretty nice nose.And Porsche has probably already optimized it for the unibody chassis underneath.To significantly modify it would require structural modifications which could jeopardize other aspects of the cars makeup,especially progressive deformation and crumpling during impact should that ever happen.
If she were mine,I'd be looking at that Lange-type roofline and a way to push it out like the Porsche 917 Lange Hecht.
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