[kach22i]

I'm suffering from some 'déjà vu' today, going back to an old but not real old post.

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post374147

Originally Posted by kach22i

I was doing a little research on Cd, scale, models and Reynolds numbers and found this paper.

This is curious, the "Estate Back" (think of a Chrysler 300 wagon) has a higher Cd than the "Fastback".

http://delphi.com/pdf/techpapers/2012-01-0168.pdf

Based on doing many many template overlays and just eyeballing it, I'd have to say the Estate Back fits the template, and the fastback falls short.

What's going on here?

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post374147

Originally Posted by kach22i

I've only skimmed it, but so far it looks like the smaller the aft area of the car (as long as you have flow/attachment) is more important than maintaining the template arc at full scale.

NOTE: The following page in the link above (page 6) has some template overlays as a visual aid.