The GLI's trunk ain't wonderful, but I still think it'd be significant. My GLI certainly feels more stable at speed than the GTI I had before it. Anywho, we could find out pretty easilly. Everyone should go out and time how long it takes to decelerate in neutral from 5000 RPM in 5th down to 3500 RPM (assuming the tachs are more accurate than the speedos and that we all have similar gearing/tires)...but be sure to make two runs in opposite directions (although if we have enough people do it, we'll be OK statistically). Lowered cars will have to be compared separately, of course, as will cars with bigger (taller OR wider) tires. :) I'll try it this weekend in the GLI. In fact, I'll try it several times. :)
At 12:25 PM 1/28/00 -0800, W. Lee Hendrick wrote: >At 3:01 PM -0500 1/28/00, Patrick Austin wrote: >>And the top speed is a couple mph faster due to the shape of the car. > > I don't know about that, AFAIK, nobody's ever published any >reliable/scientic figures or comparison, just hand-waving arguments. >Straight from the factory, both cars are rev-limited in top speed, >anyway. I understand the drag created by the large low pressure zone >and resulting turbulence resulting form the rather abrupt tail of the >GTI, but the GLI's trunk isn't exactly a wonder of aerodymanics >either. MPG figure can't be used to judge, since the weight diffence >would skew the results; but a coast-down measurement (not the dyno >type) might tell which is 'sleeker', if all the other variables are >well controlled. > > Lee > >W. Lee Hendrick > >[email protected] >http://soliton.ucsd.edu/~hendrick/ > > ************** Patrick Austin [email protected] (617)493-6636 ************** _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
