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Old 03-08-2011, 05:27 PM   #30 (permalink)
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W.E.Lay 1933

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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
Really?

Can you find that?
Frank,wherever I said that is gonna come from a comment Hucho said,regarding Walter E.Lays research in 1933.
Lay did a bunch of scale model car wind-tunnel studies,got about five of 'em down to Cd 0.12 with full boat tails.
He found,as did Fachsenfeld and Kamm,that if the fore-body had crappy flow,the boat tail was a moot point,as flow would be un-attached coming to it,rendering it useless.
Hucho goes on to say that virtually all production cars circa 1986 and later will be clean enough to ignore fore-body streamlining and to basically concentrate on the back end.
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