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Old 06-11-2008, 01:10 PM   #30 (permalink)
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What would you estimate the height of the front of the car to be? About one and one-half front rim diameters?

So with a 15 inch rim (just guessing, I have no idea) that would be
22.5 inches. The height of the front of that car is exactly the height from the floor to the center of my knee. If you can find a cardboard box, cut it so it is only 22.5 inches high. Now contemplate the box's Zenness.

Walk around the box and look how gawd-durned low that little farker is.
Take the box outside and set it next to cars. Cars dwarf the box.

Bottom line: The front of the camaro is so low, and the frontal area of the front of the car is thus so small, I don't think the shape matters very much to the total drag. They must have put a dry sump on the motor so they could get rid of the oil pan, to be able to get everthing that low. The carb lives in that snorkel. The underside near the engine looks like it plows up the ground.
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