- 1. Re: Frontal area (score: 1)
- Author: John Beckett <johnbeck@blueridge.cc.nc.us>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:15:24 -0400
- You guys are both in the ball park. A Corvette is bigger than you think. Now I have a Chevette that acording to your equasion would equal 15 square ft., and I don't think its that small...it might ru
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- 2. Re: Frontal area (score: 1)
- Author: richard jurkowski <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:51:54 -0700 (PDT)
- According to www.autorevista.com/articles/ar/vette.htm, the coefficient of drag (CD) on a 97 vette is 0.29. It would seem that you could use that as a general reference point to work backwards from t
- /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00155.html (6,876 bytes)
- 3. Re: Frontal area (score: 1)
- Author: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@idt.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:43:11 -0400
- When I calculated the frontal area of my Vette for my simulation software, I measured the TOTAL width (instead of track as book suggested) X height. Using the suggested formula (track width) I came
- /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00156.html (10,229 bytes)
- 4. Re: Frontal area (score: 1)
- Author: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@idt.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:50:59 -0400
- You are correct if the vette is a Coupe. The coupe has an indention in the roof to direct airflow over the car. The fixed roof is slightly higher as it is flat & the rag top, well, it's a rag top....
- /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00157.html (7,108 bytes)
- 5. Re: Frontal area (score: 1)
- Author: Ronald_B_Anderson@notes.seagate.com
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:54:37 -0600
- The Cd for the coupe is 0.29, 0.33 for the hardtop, and 0.38 for the rag-top. I got that from Chevrolet printed documents. But they they won'r specify frontal area, even though I've tried Chevy peop
- /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00159.html (7,854 bytes)
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