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Old 05-13-2020, 09:59 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
"Boy, you gotta carry that weight"

To paraphrase the Old Farmer, 'you can lift in one hand and downforce in the other and see which one fills up first.'

My solution for the Beetle (similar to Porsche) was to graft on a Tropfenwagen tail.


Center of pressure moves back. I should redo this with the new software I'm learning. The parts could be Booleaned together, it will probably bork the materials assignments.

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This one has more aggressive taper because the engine cooling air is introduced into a vertical trough, Coanda nozzle.

I think anyone can speculate, and lots of people do so here with all sorts of weird and wacky theories. None of its counts for anything much.

I don't know if Americans use this saying, but without actually building and testing, it's all just pissing in the wind. Harmless but pointless.

A few hours on the road testing a mock-up is worth an infinite amount of such pissing. Then we have measurements to discuss, not speculation.
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