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Howard Jones · 11-21-05, 11:18 AM

Paul as you can clearly see in your picture, If we move the radiators to the rear the nose can be droped at least 3 or 4 inches. This would have a huge effect of both front downforce and overall drag. Both in the correct direction.

The radiators would take their input from in front of the rear wheels and exaust between the inside of the rear wheel and the body pannel then out the rear of the car.

This will require twin radiators I'm sure and create packageing problems with thr AC condensor and engine and transaxle coolers but in a full size mockup I think we would be able to find room back there.

If we ran out of room at the rear we could place the engine and transaxle coolers side by side in the nose down low. The would present a much smaller frontal area that the water radiator would.

The airbox on top of the car is something I forgot about. Here is our solution to engine room cooling and cold air intake to the engine.

The over all shape of this car in just about exactly what I had in mind. If it was scaled up aproximately 10%, and with a proper cabin inside, we can see that it could work very well.

11-21-05, 11:18 AM	#66 (permalink)
Howard Jones 10 tenths Join Date: Jun 2002 GT40: San Francisco Bay Area California USA Posts: 1,862 Rep Power: 25	Re: How are all the budding chassis Designers fairing? Paul as you can clearly see in your picture, If we move the radiators to the rear the nose can be droped at least 3 or 4 inches. This would have a huge effect of both front downforce and overall drag. Both in the correct direction. The radiators would take their input from in front of the rear wheels and exaust between the inside of the rear wheel and the body pannel then out the rear of the car. This will require twin radiators I'm sure and create packageing problems with thr AC condensor and engine and transaxle coolers but in a full size mockup I think we would be able to find room back there. If we ran out of room at the rear we could place the engine and transaxle coolers side by side in the nose down low. The would present a much smaller frontal area that the water radiator would. The airbox on top of the car is something I forgot about. Here is our solution to engine room cooling and cold air intake to the engine. The over all shape of this car in just about exactly what I had in mind. If it was scaled up aproximately 10%, and with a proper cabin inside, we can see that it could work very well.