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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Do you intend to do tuft testing at some point? How much work would it take to get the drivetrain up and working? Three wheel layouts need to have careful engineering of the Cg, and the handling can be great, but they can also be problematic. Getting actual data on fuel economy and/or video of tuft tests would go a long way toward promoting your design.
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You make some good points.Yes, I have considered tuft testing to varify the laminar airflow stream over the tear drop shaped body .Just have not done it yet.It would be a good visual aid in the promotion of the car aswell.I am confident that the shape of my car with all the comprimizes that it does have for ergonomic reasons will produce very low drag numbers.Then again it is all smoke and mirrors til the car actually sees the road and shows what it can do.
The drivetrain is not the hold up.It all just needs to be rebuilt and tuned.The fact that the body plug was not intended to be driven down the road is.Not alot differant than driving one of the OEM clay models down the road.There is still alot of design and plug building work to be done before I can pull a useable body from the works.
The tadpole configuration is a very stable three wheeled layout if engineered correctly as you say.Key points to follow are to keep as much of the vehicles mass over the front axle centerline and the center of gravity as close to the ground as feasible.From what I understand this configuration when correctly set up will handle extremely well,almost as good as the best four wheeled cars.