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Originally Posted by drmiller100
car is 45 inches tall (Aren't they all?????).
Cockpit is 9 feet long.
Tallest part of the car is right above drivers head (aren't they all?). Behind the driver is 6 feet.
What is drop in car of the first 2 feet behind driver's head? Next 2 feet? Final 2 feet?
I want to do the sides also. Widest part of the car is at the driver's elbows (aren't they all?). which is 40 inches wide. Need the same numbers.
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Your car is half scale of my trailer. I took the image of the template, scaled it to fit in irfanview, and made some prints till it would measure up with an engineering scale.
I scaled your car as follows:
10% = 15.3" aft = 44.7" = 3.5° slope
20% = 30.6" aft = 43" = 7.5° slope
30% = 45.9" aft = 40.75" = 12° slope
40% = 61.2" aft = 37" = 15° slope
50% = 76.5" aft = 32.25" = 18.5° slope
60% = 92" aft = 26.7" = 21° slope
Looking at that, I would move the highest point forward of "right over the driver's head".
The headroom does not lessen appreciably in that first 10%. I'd put the 10% point over the driver to maximize headroom when you lean forward to get out, and maximize the drag reduction at the back.
You get back to that ~20° slope which is near maximum.
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