Now, if I just had the $3k to re-gear the ZF . . . .
>
> Hi Mayf:
> According to contemporary road tests, the frontal area of a Tiger is
> 17.3 s.f.
>
> So, what's the aerodynamic efficiency of a brick?
>
> Regards
>
> David Sosna
>
>
> DrMayf wrote:
>
> > This weekend, I was asked to help the Factory Five Cobra
> folk to determine
> > how fast their cars could go given flywheel horsepower or
> conversely, how
> > much horsepower would it take to go a certain speed. In the
> process, I added
> > a write up for them on my web site. I wrote a dinky Excel
> spreadsheet, using
> > Office 97 version of Excel that can solve for speed given
> horsepower. Or
> > horsepower given speed (which by the way is far easier to
> do!). I have
> > zipped the Excel file into LSRTS.ZIP for your downloading
> pleasure: it is
> > only about 20Kbytes soit does not take long. Unzip, open
> excell and use it.
> > I would be interested if you find it informative or even
> useless. To get to
> > it: Cobra Analyses
> http://www.teknett.com/pwp/drmayf/cobra.htm and
> > http://www.teknett.com/pwp/drmayf/files.htm
> >
> > May the force (horsepower) be with you and that these
> things actually work
> >
> >
> > mayf the red necked ignorant desert rat in Pahrump
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