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Originally Posted by JUSTANOVA
Do you by chance know the name of the book?
where would I find SAE papers?
I thought at one time I saw a book by steve smith on aerodynamics but I haven't seen it since.
thats a pretty good little read, The car that I am going to try to get to that speed is a 72 nova, I plan on a pretty big airdam, blocking the whole grill, except for the rad. opening., probably a piece of sheet alum. dzused over the grill/headlight area for top speed runs, I want to do all the proper research before I start cutting sheetmetal etc. I was going to use flush mount door handles, cut/tuck the rear bumper into the body etc....
I also plan on running an artmorrison chassis and fully itegrated cage...etc... with that chassis I should be able to set ride heights really low and make the bottom of the car flat.
as far as aero tricks it has crossed my mind to lower the leading edge of the hood to pomote downforce and then make the part of the fender that lines up with the hood come down to match the hood. but leave the outer edge of the fender stock so it doesn't disturb the body line.
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Race Car Aerodynamics: designing For Speed
By Jospeh Katz
ISBN 0-8376-0142-8
SAE:
www.sae.org
I wouldn't start buying papers until you have a handle on what you are looking for.
Re: the Camaro article all these cars have lots of front end lift. My Mustang in stock trim had 200 lbs of lift at 100 MPH. Also, the air dam on the Camaro may work some, but it will make lots of drag. You always want to make downforce, or in this case reduce lift, while minimizing drag. Lift itself causes drag to go up.
John Buscema
XV Motorsports
www.xvmotorsports.com