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Originally Posted by kennybobby
i was searching for an expected drag coeff for the typical open-wheeled style dragster such as shown here, has anyone seen measured or calculated Cd for this? Body panels would obviously be added, this is just the rolling chassis.
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You'd be looking in the Cd 0.9 range.If you put wings on it,she'd go over Cd 1.0.
In 1987,the Arrivet Brothers,of Southern California were experimenting with a fully-enclosed,streamlined NHRA Top-Fuel dragster.She measured Cd 0.20 @ zero-degrees yaw,and Cd 0.18 @ 12-degrees yaw.