View Single Post
Old 05-16-2010, 10:06 AM   #11 (permalink)
RobertSmalls
Left Lane Ecodriver
 
RobertSmalls's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
Posts: 2,257

Prius C - '12 Toyota Prius C
Thanks: 79
Thanked 287 Times in 200 Posts
Piwoslaw posted a graph from Piechna's book:


This agrees with my tuft testing as well. For minimum drag, 4° looks great. Even up to 7° looks fine. But things do not rapidly fall apart until 15°. From 15-30°, it looks like you'd be better off just not having an underside. I will avoid these angles.

Of course the actual numbers may be different because the wood block isn't shaped exactly like an Insight, but the trends should be the same.






SI2, I've left the exhaust and wheel wells wide open. Things don't look good except down the center of the car.

  Reply With Quote