[BabyDiesel]

Originally Posted by aerohead

I picked up where NASA left off with their 'Shoebox' van streamlining and took it to completion.
Starting from their fully-boat-tailed Cd 0.238 van I:
*added body side camber (Buchheim,Deutenbach,and L'u'ckoff)
*added upper edge radii (Hucho)
*added roof camber (Buchheim,Leie,and L'u'ckoff)
*added wheel skirts (Heltemes,Tremulis,Cogotti,Garrone,and Masoero)
*added MOON-esque wheel covers (Shinella,Tsukada,Sakagami,Arai,and Takahara)
*and full wheel fairings (Tamai),allowing 50% of Tamai's factor allowing for wider tires (SWAG).


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We'd have to add back in some features drag associated with a working cooling system,wipers,and mirrors,but that's not a lot of fruit to put back on the tree considering the GM Precept concept car.
PS these are just estimates but should fall close to the tree.

Aerohead, your work on NASA's Shoebox has given me a wealth of ideas! It is impressive how adding the side body camber and adding radii the to the upper edge was worth a Cd value of 0.6 That is as much as all of my mods combined, minus the air dam

Could these be replicated on my Escort? I know that the side body camber will be next to impossible. What about the others?