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Re: Exhaust exits

To: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Exhaust exits
From: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:55:05 -0500
My thinking is probably the same as yours.

JB
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
To: land-speed@autox.team.net <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, December 26, 1999 9:24 PM
Subject: Exhaust exits


>I was up visiting Mayf here last week and he had finished the air Damn on
>the Sunbeam... he has the Turbo's plumbed out the front of the air damn
just
>in front of the Front Wheel....
>
>I was thinking that aerodynamically the air flow would be disturbed as the
>exhaust gases would take on a Frontal area of thier own leaving the car...
>and a rear facing exhaust has been pointed out to add VERY minimally to the
>overall thrust of a car.... any thoughts on the subject?
>
>Keith (happy to have Christmas here and also glad to see it go)
>




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