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Originally Posted by orange4boy
With a microscopic frontal area of 17.2, a Cd of .36 and CdA of 6.19, the 914 is a prime ecomodding target. WANT!!1!
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They're also a prime candidate for an electric conversion. I went looking for the Cd/CDa of a Beetle (0.46/19.3) and I found this:
1947 VW Beetle-Based V2 Sagitta is More Aerodynamic than New Golf, Mercedes CLA!
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It turns out that the V2 Sagitta has a drag coefficient (Cd) of 0.217 corresponding to a frontal area of 2.10 square meters.
This means the car is two times more aerodynamic than the VW Beetle it was based on, which had a Cd of 0,46 and a frontal area of 1.80 square meters. While that is not surprising, it’s only when comparing the V2 Sagitta’s results with those of modern cars that we get a true sense of Volkhart’s work.
The 1947 car is more aerodynamic than Volkswagen’s Golf Mk7, which has a drag coefficient of 0.27 and a frontal area of 2.19 square meters. Not only that, but it also beats the most aerodynamic production car of the moment, the Mercedes-Benz CLA, which has a Cd of 0.22!
Volkhart’s car also stands up really well against its modern-day equivalent - the Volkswagen XL1. At 0.189 and a frontal area of 1.50, the XL1 beats the V2 Sagitta, but not by an overwhelming margin.
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Originally Posted by orange4boy
I am considering buying a slightly rough-around-the-edges 914 as a grocery-getter/middle age crisis project.
It's red, just the right colour for a crisis car. But that will have to change. I hate red cars. It's interior is quite good considering and it has remarkably little rust for a wet coast car but it's had some dodgy bodywork done. Original EFI is missing. It has a single carb.
If I can get it for ~$2000, I might just go for it.
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I see what you did there. As for the
colour, go to YouTube and search on "Plastidip whole car". What's the single carb, a side-draft Weber?