Marina / Ital engines - Which ones/

[Cam]

What would your 4 door do?

I don't know really. It does 0-60 in about 7.6 seconds (timed from RPM) so looking at other cars with that 0-60 time (to get a ROUGH idea) it should be somewhere around the mid to late 15s. I have applied some 'rough' equations from Vizard and they point to around the same times too. I have tried other car details in those equations and they are roughly about right. The only thing I had to assume was the Minor's drag coefficient which I took to be about 0.34. I suspect in a real test it might run into the 16s though. Would be nice to find out one day!

[Matt]

Anyone done it in a standart 1098? and the traveller must have a much larger drag co-efficent

[rayofleamington]

the traveller must have a much larger drag co-efficent

not necessarily - half of it is down to frontal area, which is the same.
sloping back ends can make the drag worse - it's all to do with boundary layer seperation etc.. (boring 2nd year mech eng stuff). Therefore the trav might be very close on drag
The weight difference would probably slow the traveller down though.

[Matt]

true........... I was thinking that the flat back of the traveller would induce more eddies. Also, the flat surfaces of the protruding wood can't help!

[Scott]

They raced Volvo wagons in the BTCC years ago when they found they were more efficient throught the air than the sedans.

[morrismanic]

Ive just bought oa minor and the bloke i bought it off said it done low tens to late nines with a cossy lump now its got a 1850 b series lump it goes a treat with the 4 bar suspension took it down the road the other day after oil change and cleaning the points after five yrs it lost an audi 18t then i had to go home due to no tax

[rayofleamington]

morrismanic,
That sounds very much like one that was on e-bay. Is that where you got it?