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Originally Posted by Piwoslaw
Oh, how nice it would be to lower the roof. If the car is a goner anyway, then why not have some fun?
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As for the Megane Coupe, I checked that is has Cd=0.33 and frontal area only 1.9m2 (as opposed to my 307sw's 2.55m2). Iirc the ZX's FA is closer to mine and has Cd=0.36, so getting the Coupe would score you a lot, especially if you don't need a big car. You could also look for the convertible version and make a custom aero hardtop, as proposed here.
Much more than we would like, but that's the price we pay for being better than the rest  |
I try to make some mods, but have to keep car legal and usable, also I'm mostly using scraps for parts, so that even there would not be much gain from mod, it will not cause more load to world, even I'm not really eco person, I try to do things reasonable way and there is no point of buying much new stuff for vehicle that is going to be replace by christmas if all goes according to my plans.
That of course limits a bit what I can do, so far only paint, tape and some rivets have been bought for mods, rest are odds and bits left out from other projects that have had no other possible usage, new tool I needed anyway and fiberglass I needed anyway to repair bumper.
Latest improvement was to add side supports for that last 50% of kammback, this time I had no more plywood available so found scrap pieces of thin metal, it was bit too little really, but I made supports from that anyway.
After driving some 30km on gravel road I did notice that it is not very good, supports are getting dusty from outside facing surfaces, so they are too much inward.
Other thing I did notice is that now dust swirls, there are two swirls at sides, like in aeroplane when landing and at middle there is tiny gap where dust is not rising so high.
Swirls rotate inwards, also rear window is still gettin bit dusty, not so much as before. Hard to really tell much of difference as there was not enough dusty roads to see full effect, only small areas of dusty roads. Rain would be rather good test.
I must still add 3rd brake light to lower part of window, so that it is seen by other drivers, I think that I have one unused one that I got free years ago as it was going to dumpster, yeah, I'm a hamster
ABS got broken again, just few weeks ago was fixed, did cost 180 euros, one of the gremlins in this car.
I was wondering if that cd value in database is for break or normal ZX? If it is for that hatchback then break would be bit more 0.02-0.04 is perhaps typically added for break/stw compared to hatchback, sedan being somewhere in the middle.
Megane and ZX are same size cars, imo, only that I now have break, but I really don't need one as I do have a trailer, aerohead would probably get excited about that one and if I would need to pull it more than once in two years then I might do full mods to it for sure