You should lower your car

[freebeard]

You should lower your car

Chopped, sectioned, channeled and dropped.


https://imgur.com/3Xq3V4E

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

I remember seeing some slumdogs claiming their lowered cars accelerated faster and could consume less gasoline on highway, but they were a PITA to drive in town. My only experiences with lowered cars were also not any good.

[freebeard]

Look for the video of the guy getting into the Woodruff Special. He starts out on his hands and knees, crawls in and rolls over, then swings his legs in.

I literally could not do that myself.

[j-c-c]

Originally Posted by Phase

Tire frontal area is reduced. So lowering an inch reduces frontal area by about a square foot give or take.

If rear tires are 100% included in frontal area calculations and one lowers the car 1", to reduce area by one square foot, each tire must be equally 36" wide.
Want to try again?

[j-c-c]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Chopped, sectioned, channeled and dropped.


https://imgur.com/3Xq3V4E

I guess those frontal protrusions pictured are of little concern in the drag coefficient vs frontal area battle?

[freebeard]

It's all in what aerohead would call a favorable presure gradient. It would be worse if the shock absorbers were stiill present.

[j-c-c]

Or maybe a Gurney Bump even.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I literally could not do that myself.

There might be some easier way

[j-c-c]

You mean not being lower?

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by j-c-c

I guess those frontal protrusions pictured are of little concern in the drag coefficient vs frontal area battle?

With the front and rear mutilations, along with the exposed wheels, it wouldn't matter much if the body was there or not.
You'd be competing with an Arial Atom, at Cd 0.65.
Beautifully executed though!