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Originally Posted by aerohead
Historically,it looks like some of the most successful low-drag record cars used 2-dimensional 'Templates' for plan-view tapering.
The air on the sides of a car is slower than over the roof/greenhouse and at a higher pressure, and with less kinetic energy contained,may not be able to support as much camber as over the roof without risk of separation.
Until I learn more,I'd recommend the 3.94:1 symmetrical wing section profile from Hoerner's drag table.
It should be at the AST Part-C thread.
let's try an image
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is this what you meant by using profile template on top? doing this on the 2014 mazda 3 and the AST did follow one of the body contour lines (I think it was the belt line just below the windows.