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Old 05-23-2016, 04:05 PM   #5 (permalink)
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When I was in high school I drew a sports car that was like that except it had open rear wheels and an exposed transaxle for RWD. The windshield angle was mimiced in the seat back angle. I wonder if that picture is still around.

Now, whenever I see something like this, I wonder what it would be like after a 50-50 morph with the Volkhart-Sagitta. Or the top half of the V-S on the bottom of the Wave II.

gafhj -- How about this: A fastback body generates inward and downward rotating vortexes. Might not an inverted fastback produce inward and upward rotating vortexes?



This car has two such. I think the wheelwell turbulence is thereby managed and exhausted upward into the rest of the wake, instead of spreading down onto the ground. Even if you were to completely boat tail the wheel and tire, you still have the wheelwell opening itself to contend with.

Longtail examples:


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