would it be 0.4x or 4.x ??
cause when I put in 0.4 it says the stock 120Y sedan would run a 17.2 (haha
yeah right)
but when I put in 4.0 it runs a 24.3
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, 20 June 2000 11:48
Subject: Re: confused once again
>Respectfully, I reckon 0.32 Cd for a 120Y is very optimistic. I'd expect
late
>model hatchbacks to be about this or probably worse, and that's with modern
>curved panel construction and hundreds of wind tunnel hours at the
prototype
>stage.
>Even slick new cars are lucky to beat 0.30, so I'd be thinking 0.4x for our
>'70s sedans, maybe high 0.3x for a 120y coupe.
>
>Just my opinion of course, but I have seen a bit of wind and water tunnel
work
>in my time here at Uni of Ad, and it's the little turbulences and boundary
layers
>that build up on flat panels and in recesses that bump the drag right up,
and
>old Dattos have heaps of both.
>
>DF
>
>PS - don't you just love seeing someone who paid $30k+ for a new car with a
>0.29 Cd, and then added 0.02 right off the bat by chucking on a spoiler for
>the sake of 200 grams of downforce ?
>
>>Its the atmospheric drag generated by your car's body shape.
>>An streamlined car body with a low CD would measure in the high 2's. A =
>>120Y coupe would be around 3.2 at a guess, a sedan may be .2 higher =
>>again.=20
>
>
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