Drag coefficient

[SilverBullet]

Anyone knows the drag coefficient of the beetle and super beetle?

[Bugorsh]

I think it is .48 for a flat screen beetle and .47 for the curved screen Supers.

[beetle1303]

there are actually two drag coefficients

Cd which is 0.47 and 0.48 for supers and normals respectively

and the most important

the Cda where the frontal area of the car comes into play

Cda is Cdxa where a is the total frontal area (in square meters)

in some book i had found Cda to be around 0.9-1.0

Chris

[SilverBullet]

0.01 difference, not much at all, is it? Has anyone tried making a flat pan under the car, to add to down force?

[beetle1303]

im building a model and getting it in a wind tunnel...

U can keep track of progress here:

http://www.germanlook.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=8324

Chris