Better Idea - just make a huge paper mache or fiberglass egg too encase your
Vanagon.

That will pretty much take care of the drag and the co-efficients.

No, you won't win the world's largest egg contest but at best you will be
the world's fastest egg.

At worst , if you crack-up you will make the world's largest omelet.

Robert

1982 Westfalia

----Original Message Follows----
From: Ben T <BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM>
Reply-To: BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Re:       Re: Vanagon Drag Co efficient?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:04:44 EST

In a message dated 3/23/2004 6:01:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
FrankGRUN@AOL.COM writes:

<< More effective, though, would be a pressure deformable inflatable
truncated
hemispherical surface mounted to the rear of the Vanagon. By controlling the
inflation pressure, at a constant velocity, while optimizing manifold
vacuum,
one should be able to reduce drag by 20% or more. If you then fixed the
shape
and made a mold, one could market a baggage extension which also reduce
drag.
Does require moving outside the original vehicle envelope! >>

A box with half an egg attached... hmmm... Why not just buy a Toyota Previa
install the body over a Vanagon drivetrain? Better yet, dirve it as it is.

But then many of us own Vanagons because we like the way  the look more so
than the way they run.

BenT O. Boxx

Robert
1982 Westfalia 1987 Wolfsburg

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