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Re: modified sports

To: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>, <kturk@ala.net>
Subject: Re: modified sports
From: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:11:36 -0500
You can chop it.

My question is: Whats the difference between the drag of the roll cage vs
the increased frontal area of the choped hard top w/windshield?

John Beckett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
To: <kturk@ala.net>
Cc: <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: modified sports


> Pick the hardtop if you can chop it :>) or it is low
> already. Nothing has much more drag than an open hole for
> the air to crawl in to.. you know boundary layer and all
> that stuff.
> Dave Dahlgren
>
> Keith Turk wrote:
> >
> > Yes they made both Convertibles and Roadsters.... though there is some
> > argument about what constitutes what...
> >
> > they also made a Hard top and I have been contemplating running one of
> > those too.... or having one as an option....
> >
> > K
> >
> > ----------
> > > From: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
> > > To: ddahlgren@snet.net; land-speed@autox.team.net; kturk@ala.net
> > > Subject: Re: modified sports
> > > Date: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 3:07 PM
> > >
> > >         Dave, I may be wrong on this ...... but aren' t all those open
> > >                              Healeys called  ROADSTERS  ?
> > >                  or did they make both roadsters and converts ?
> > >
> > > nearby neighbor Bruce

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