> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-land-speed@Autox.Team.Net
> [mailto:owner-land-speed@Autox.Team.Net]On Behalf Of ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 9:35 PM
> To: land-speed@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Re: 1928-29 Ford Roadster bodies in LSR
>
>
> > >>It has come to my attention that an ingenious individual is
> reading our
> > >>new
> > >>rules on rear engine modified roadster and has decided that
> it doesn't
> > >>say
> > >>anywhere in the rules that the car needs to face in it's intended
> > >>direction. So
> > >>it
> > >>seems he's building a rear motored car with the body on
> backwards and all
> > >>panels in stock relation to each other. Change one simple
> rule and open a
> > >>can of
> > >>worms.
> >
> I'd question whether the ass-end of a 27 T roadster is very
> aerodynamic
> compared to the needle-nose front-end streamlining allowed in Modified
> Roadster.....Ardun Doug
>
I would not question it too long. base drag at the back costs a lot more
than anything you might do in the front with a needle nose from what I have
read. it would not be the first car that was better at going backwards
rather than the way originally designed.
Dave
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