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freebeard · 03-17-2016, 03:29 PM

Interesting question: When the quarter window on my Superbeetle is flipped all the way open so it is scooping air into the car, does stuffing the turbulence at the A-pillar into a resonant plenum help or hinder the overall drag?

03-17-2016, 03:29 PM	#11 (permalink)
freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,703 Thanks: 8,147 Thanked 8,925 Times in 7,368 Posts	Interesting question: When the quarter window on my Superbeetle is flipped all the way open so it is scooping air into the car, does stuffing the turbulence at the A-pillar into a resonant plenum help or hinder the overall drag?