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Re: Frontal area

To: richard jurkowski <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Frontal area
From: 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......
Ed


richard jurkowski wrote:
> 
> 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 the
> data you get by using the calculations you have already outlined.  I'm
> certainly not an engineer, but I just thought it might help.
> Dick J

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