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Hey freebeard! Is that your Superbeetle?
I didn't understand what you were trying to do the first time you showed it.
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No. The picture dates to 2014, two years before I got the SUPERBeetle. I did a number of design, but in the software I was using, I could't merge my additions.
The Coanda design follows the Tropfenwagen, The one in the upper right follows Breer's work at Chrysler in the 1930s. Neither considers engine cooling.
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You could also get some real gains by rerouting the radiator flow.
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Here's the thing. The whole engine is radiator. The Beetle engine compartment is a plenum. Cooling air is drawn by a squirrel-cage fan. All cooling air exits two ducts about 3x6".
Here're some other designs from the same time
And the boat tail mockup from 2014:
Wait a minute the Superbeetle is in the picture
I sold the Baja Bug last week ($500).