Bill,
It takes big cubic inches, a very careful set up, great driving and lots of
exotic fuel to make these bricks perform like a car with a low coeffiecent
of drag. K. C. Leggitt did go 282 in one in C/BFR in 1990 however and that
was a memorable day. It seems like his one way time was around 300 so they
can be made to go very, very fast. I still like the Varney-Walsh Cusack
roadster for sheer Bonneville type noise. When he shut off at the five
mile, people on the starting line could hear the roaring stop. That grabs
you right in the pit! Talk about the sounds of Bonneville!
Wes
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> From: ardunbill@webtv.net
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Aerodynamics
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:20:34 -0500 (EST)
>
>Hi Folks. The recent chat about aero made me ponder the '32 Ford
>roadster body like mine and how it fits into the scheme of airflow
>things. The body is vaguely like a slightly tapered brick with a
>slightly rounded grill shell. One wonders what it would show in a wind
>tunnel. Not that I'm going to volunteer mine for Langley.
>
>I imagine that filling the '32 grill shell with a metal panel is an
>improvement, rather than just trapping all the onrushing air inside it.
>Whatever the aerodynamics are, cars like this run in the 250 range and
>over at Bonneville.
>
>Any observations about this topic from the Bonneville veterans??
>
>Holiday greetings from ArdunBill in Chesapeake, VA (The Great Dismal
>Swamp)
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