[guudasitgets]

Originally Posted by nimblemotors

i do hope areohead's respect has been brought down a notch,
what has he built?
I bet he has never even seen a mg midget.


If you don't have something positive to contribute, the stfu,

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Originally Posted by aerohead

*walter korff,sports car buff,designer of 555-mph goldenrod,lockheed aeronautical engineer,etc.,gives the mg-type cars cd 0.70 with the roof off (as the car was photographically introduced to ecomodder).
*with the roof on they can go to cd 0.49 neighborhood.
*with the roof off, small bubble screen and turtledeck,cd 0.41.
*with small bubble screen,side plex(as on lotus 11),turtledeck,and partial front and rear wheel skirts,cd0.21.
*with fully-enclosed body and closed canopy,with rear taper,cd 0.16.
*with the 1957 mg ex 181 body,cd 0.12.
*the 1969 corvette was cd 0.505 with headlights up.
*the 1969 corvette was cd 0.495 'clean.'
*the 1969 corvette was about cd 0.46 with 100% grille block.(so the new composite nose is going to help).
*at 81% of gross frontal area,the estimated frontal area of the midget is around 14.893 sq-ft.(a bit larger than the original lotus elan )
*the 1st-gen metro is reported here at eco. At 19.0-sq-ft frontal area.
*the metro was around cd 0.32.
*giving the metro a drag factor of 6.08 sq-ft (0.565 sq-m).
*if the midget had cd 0.408,it's aerodynamic signature would just match the metro.
*below cd 0.408,the midget would begin a clear advantage over the metro,and would reflect it at the gas pump.
*the bmw z-1 is of the lower end for drag,at cd 0.36 with it's top up.
*for steady,constant-speed highway operation,the mg's lower weight would have very little bearing upon mpg.
*around town,the lighter mg would have a clear advantage.
*the 55-bhp metro would go 89-mph.
*coast-to-coast the xfi could do 58-mpg.
*the 90-bhp lotus elan would go 110-mph.
*at 70-mph the elan absorbs 21-hp

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All I can say is OUCH!