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Old 08-08-2015, 08:21 PM   #21 (permalink)
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VW Rabbit rear glass

I guess that recessed glass may have been more boattailing, according to Hucho , 4th edition Pg 172-174. It was a 9% improvement with only 20 mm extension. That could be easy to try on my wagon, as the overall rear window angle is the roughly the same (50 degrees, I think), but the window bulges out on the wagon, where the VW is flat.

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Old 08-14-2015, 06:02 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Typo or full boattail?
I finally got a graphic scanned.I took a french curve to Hucho's table and extrapolated his curve out to where it might have played out.
It's just a 'guess',but it looks like the Cd would 'bottom' when the box was equal to around 42% of the body length.

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