Preserved from CalaisTurbo. Original authors and dates are shown; archived members are not current Holdcom accounts.
Does Any1 Know If Walkys Were The First Street Car In The World To Be Designed In A Windtunnel
0 likes
The first designed in a wind tunnel NO
The most wild looking to make it into production Probably
Corsa
0 likes
First Australian car wasn't it??
0 likes
I heard the VL GRP A was (HDT one) designed using a wind tunnel, or at least tested.
0 likes
Standard Holden Commodores had been tested in wind tunnels before the VL was released. GM in the US had the first full size windtunnel. There was a magazine article on their windtunnel i came accross a few days ago. If you read some of the other ealry mags on the release of new models etc then you will find mentions of Earlier commodores undergoing wind tunnel testing even if it was only a scale model version etc.
Corsa
0 likes
so walkys were disigned in a windtunnel yes/no
0 likes
Designed in a wind tunnel yes I'd say so
Other cars were tested in wind tunnels but Walky was actually designed using one
Corsa?
0 likes
15-02-05, 13:32 GMT+10#11 Quote:
Originally Posted by VLTXTC
wtfs a wind tunnel????
something you fart in
0 likes
15-02-05, 15:08 GMT+10#12 Quote:
Originally Posted by DasBlitz
something you fart in
So... the VN was the first car to be designed in a "Dutch oven"?
Daz
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
0 likes
15-02-05, 21:03 GMT+10#14 From what I've heard, the drivers complained when the VN came in because of its lack of downforce compared to the walky, because the walky was designed in the wind tunnel, while the vn wasn't.
0 likes
16-02-05, 12:08 GMT+10#15 Quote:
Originally Posted by ^Mobil_HRT^
From what I've heard, the drivers complained when the VN came in because of its lack of downforce compared to the walky, because the walky was designed in the wind tunnel, while the vn wasn't.
LOL VN was first to be designed out at sea... being the boat that it is..
Yeah I heard Walkies were designed in a windtunnel, actually over in England initially.
0 likes
17-02-05, 03:39 GMT+10#16 In England at night cause the windtunnel sucked to much electricity out of the power grid,so there ya have it,those wild door moulds reduce drag
0 likes
21-03-05, 18:20 GMT+10#17 there was designing going on with the vn? i thought they just picked that idea out of the toilet one morning
0 likes
21-03-05, 18:45 GMT+10#18 One of the designers sons had a school project on boats and they made a model boat out of a VL buy adding playdough to a original VL model...
Next morning the car builders picked up the wrong model and thats how the VN was made..
..
Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
0 likes
22-03-05, 06:23 GMT+10#19 TWR used the MIRA wind tunnel in the UK to design the Gp. A SV kit. The tunnel used a pair of Lancaster bomber propellors powered by large electric motors to create a fair breeze of up to 240 km/h. Because of the rapid pace of development, the town's grid could not keep up with the demand and most of the work was done at night to avoid power shortages.
It was not the first street car in the world to be designed with the use of a wind tunnel, not by a long shot.
0 likes
23-03-05, 22:23 GMT+10#20 what about the ferarri's?
no wind tunnels for them?
0 likes