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Old 05-30-2008, 01:06 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ihatejoefitz View Post
I'm not sure if you did any computational fluid dynamics modeling on your nose, but if you're going to go through all of that trouble, please model it first.
the nose was designed by two criteria.. need a place to put the plate vertically and round.. its all rounded to push air around and over the car.. it wasn't not modeled, I have no way of doing that.. however by doing "bug splat tests" it's very efficient, the bugs only hit the nose where the plate goes in front.. I was quite surprised for my shoot from the hip methods. made a big difference top speed coasting down hills and in throttle needed to run at 55mph. Thats all I can go by i guess

How would I model this? software or something?
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