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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