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Old 01-06-2014, 11:04 PM   #269 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Location: Coastal Southern California
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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90 day: 66.42 mpg (US)

Black and Red - '00 Nashbar Custom built eBike
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
From an SAE Paper from the latter 1980s,the F1/Indycar body was:
*Cd 0.24 by itself.
*Cd 0.54 with wheels.
*Cd 1.2 with wheels and wings.
*They were turning laps at Indy at 235-mph.
*At 150-mph their dynamic 'weight' was 5,000-lbs,for a car of 1,500-lb static weight.
*And yes,they could easily race inverted.
I shared this with my wife... and immediately wondered about a day when driver-less indy race cars drive on wild tracks with inverted sections, because the fear of driver injury had been eliminated. The new design problems and possibilities, the thrill for audiences of watching in person as full-sized cars do almost aerobatic maneuvers. Day dreaming.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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