- 1. Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:41:16 -0500
- Excerpts from the 1998 book "Aerodynamics of road vehicles": The front half of a streamlined shape has a minor effect on its drag. A shape that had a Cd of .25 and 4" ground clearance would have a .2
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00429.html (8,073 bytes)
- 2. RE: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:35:36 -0500
- Cd #s without area taken into consideration are meaningless.. It is CdA that Dave
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00446.html (8,952 bytes)
- 3. Re: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: Nt788@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:20:19 EST
- interesting jack
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00452.html (7,817 bytes)
- 4. Re: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: "Benn" <karhu@california.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:46:51 -0800
- If the nose is on or below center of WHAT? And all the lsr cars that have about an inch of ground clearance at front are sustaining 40% higher drag than if they were 2-1/2" above the ground? a .26 cl
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00453.html (8,036 bytes)
- 5. RE: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:08:27 -0500
- I bet there will be a lot of people not very happy about this news.. BUT I got me a plan Hoss.. From the ciphering I have come up with the following Changing the ride height by a factor of 10.526(4"/
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00454.html (10,220 bytes)
- 6. RE: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: "James Tone" <James.Tone@AES.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:35:16 -0800
- To throw some fuel into the fire; there has always been two schools of thought with roadsters (brick racing to some of you) 1. Low and 2. Not so Low. The new ones are obviously low today but some of
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00455.html (9,124 bytes)
- 7. Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: pork.pie@t-online.de (Pork Pie)
- Date: 27 Jan 2005 19:37 GMT
- Hi Folks, To this book which starts so much discussion. We talked about in Vaihingen at the University wind tunnel - the result was, that we couldn't agree to a lot of points and views in this book -
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00460.html (7,746 bytes)
- 8. RE: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: Dale.Clay@mdhelicopters.com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:04:17 -0700
- Yeah, some of that sounded kind of questionable to me too. Letting air under the car REDUCES drag? If true, I'd be real surprised. Dale C. Hi Folks, To this book which starts so much discussion. We t
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00461.html (8,469 bytes)
- 9. RE: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: BWANA343@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:55:01 EST
- In somewhat of a defense to John Burk's Quote from the Aerodynamics book, I see at least some merit in the statement "A shape that had a CD of . 25 and 4" ground clearance would have a . 26 CD if it
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00463.html (8,483 bytes)
- 10. RE: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: "todd" <todd@twinjugs.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:55:58 +0000
- I can see it being detrimental to stability, but would think that would be true(to some degree) concerning drag. Warner Riley thought along those lines for his bike if I'm not mistaken, and his speed
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00464.html (8,680 bytes)
- 11. Re: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: "Benn" <karhu@california.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:50:07 -0800
- It seem intuitive that (assuming you have a smooth surface underneath), the air would rather go under than be pushed around the sides or over the top (as this is bound to cause higher pressure at the
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00465.html (8,923 bytes)
- 12. Re: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: "joe Amo" <jkamo@rushmore.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:58:48 -0800
- yeah once Jack fixes his darn cars, they ought to go real Joe :)
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00466.html (9,515 bytes)
- 13. Re: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:28:27 -0700
- Ya think!!!! Glen -- Original Message -- From: "joe Amo" <jkamo@rushmore.com> To: "Benn" <karhu@california.com>; <Dale.Clay@mdhelicopters.com>; <pork.pie@t-online.de>; <land-speed@autox.team.net> Se
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00467.html (9,510 bytes)
- 14. Re: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:56:04 -0800
- Jack's cars don't go through the air, they go under the air. If you doubt that, ask Jack! Seriously, his cars are so close to the track that there may be some strange things happening between the tra
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00468.html (7,874 bytes)
- 15. Re: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: Nt788@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:22:33 EST
- Jacks off!
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00474.html (7,438 bytes)
- 16. Re: Aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: jkamo@rushmore.com
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:24:36 -0700
- you can say that again............. thats usually how I describe ya, "he is a little "off"" course I say it with a massive smile, and alot of admiration..... wish I could have coffee with you every m
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00475.html (7,816 bytes)
- 17. aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Cowle <scowle@mentorcollege.edu>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:57:07 -0400
- First, I want to thankl the ECTA for putting my car in their picture post. But As I waslooking at the cars there I noticed two important things, 1) My car looks way too ugly -mostly I think because o
- /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00107.html (7,130 bytes)
- 18. RE: aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:29:24 -0400
- A nascar style at the base of the windshield or the front of the car.. With ample sized ducts lewading to a sealed airbox.. Clean cold air is your friend, high pressure air with all sorts of directio
- /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00108.html (7,956 bytes)
- 19. Re: aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:29:57 -0700
- Carbs and turbulent air - I have heard that this is a problem and saw one example where a car picked up over 30 mph by sealing off an air scoop that was directing high speed turbulent air into the ca
- /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00110.html (7,150 bytes)
- 20. RE: aerodynamics (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:09:35 -0400
- An air filter that is fairly large helps a lot as does a well designed airbox that slows the air down. The problem is the same with efi as well so running that won't really solve it completely either
- /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00111.html (8,176 bytes)
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