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1. Wind tunnel results, ( No LBC )(sorta ) (score: 1)
Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 08:57:12 -0500
I took my Bonneville Berkeley to the wind tunnel this last week and thought I'd share the actual CD results... After many of you saw it at Conclave last year I thought you might like an update... Bas
/html/spridgets/2006-05/msg00770.html (7,900 bytes)

2. Re: Wind tunnel results, ( No LBC )(sorta ) (score: 1)
Author: "Timothy H. Collins" <thcollin@mtu.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:17:40 -0400
What change had the greatest impact on lowering the CD? Covering holes, reducing frontal area, size of spoiler, etc??? the CD started at .271 and then we started whittling on Timothy H Collins, Profe
/html/spridgets/2006-05/msg00772.html (7,492 bytes)

3. Re: Wind tunnel results, ( No LBC )(sorta ) (score: 1)
Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:23:48 -0500
No question about it.... by lowering the spoiler we decreased from .271 all the way down to .220 took it off and got a .214 added back in a spoiler going down hill at 7 degrees and it hit .202 Coveri
/html/spridgets/2006-05/msg00774.html (7,488 bytes)

4. Re: Wind tunnel results, ( No LBC )(sorta ) (score: 1)
Author: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:52:32 -0500
Can you extrapolate this to a Spridget? What effect would covering the cockpit area, especially the rear bulkhead have? Any pics of the test car? Good to read your voice, again. TT Craig Rice yester
/html/spridgets/2006-05/msg00775.html (7,898 bytes)

5. Re: Wind tunnel results, ( No LBC )(sorta ) (score: 1)
Author: WFO Herb <froggi60@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:42:13 -0700 (PDT)
...take the parking brake off! ;-) -- New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big.
/html/spridgets/2006-05/msg00779.html (7,298 bytes)

6. Re: Wind tunnel results, ( No LBC )(sorta ) (score: 1)
Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:35:20 -0500
Dallas your exactly right.... Finding what the lowest drivable drag was our biggest goal... which looks to be right around the .202 position.... K
/html/spridgets/2006-05/msg00790.html (7,245 bytes)

7. Re: Wind tunnel results, ( No LBC )(sorta ) (score: 1)
Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:57:30 -0500
Yes the White car half way down on that page is mine.... as is the Camaro pictured there... I'm really a Healey kind of guy... we just ended up with the Berkeley body because it was so much smaller t
/html/spridgets/2006-05/msg00792.html (8,042 bytes)

8. Re: Wind tunnel results, ( No LBC )(sorta ) (score: 1)
Author: "Linda Grunthaner" <grunthaner@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 05:01:24 -0400
Wow Keith very very cool. It does my heart good to see women race. I hope you post pictures of the event. The Berkeley is a very nice looking car now I remember seeing it on the Micro Cars site http:
/html/spridgets/2006-05/msg00798.html (9,653 bytes)

9. Re: Wind tunnel results, ( No LBC )(sorta ) (score: 1)
Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 04:16:24 -0500
CD is coefficient of Drag... Basically there are three things that aid a car in going fast... Horsepower, Traction and how slippery the body is to the wind... Coefficient of Drag is simply a measurem
/html/spridgets/2006-05/msg00799.html (9,643 bytes)

10. Re: Wind tunnel results, ( No LBC )(sorta ) (score: 1)
Author: "Linda Grunthaner" <grunthaner@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 05:38:35 -0400
And you got your Berkeley down to .170, pretty impressive. How do you read that CD, what device? And what's under the hood not the 3 cylinder that came with it. And what did you do to the body to ta
/html/spridgets/2006-05/msg00800.html (10,411 bytes)

11. RE: Wind tunnel results, ( No LBC )(sorta ) (score: 1)
Author: "de Brebisson, Cyrille (Calculator Division)" <cyrille@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:40:16 -0600
You put the car on a fixture in the wind tunnel, the fixture has force sensor that measure the push of the wind on the car. cyrille Keith, And you got your Berkeley down to .170, pretty impressive.
/html/spridgets/2006-05/msg00805.html (8,321 bytes)

12. Re: Wind tunnel results, ( No LBC )(sorta ) (score: 1)
Author: Daniel1312@aol.com
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:02:28 EDT
The fourth would be a reduction in frontal area. Daniel1312
/html/spridgets/2006-05/msg00815.html (8,040 bytes)

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