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Old 05-16-2007, 04:11 AM
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Default drag coefficient of s197

does anyone know the drag on our cars? i've looked EVERY where and can't find...there shouldn't be too much of a diff between the GT and V6 or am i mistaken?
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Old 05-16-2007, 11:59 AM
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Default RE: drag coefficient of s197

google gave a result of .38 for the gt500.

http://www.autozine.org/html/Ford_USA/Mustang.html
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Old 05-16-2007, 12:25 PM
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Default RE: drag coefficient of s197

some guy in another forum gave .36 for the gt, said he saw it a couple of different places but did not provide any links... so...
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Old 05-16-2007, 05:54 PM
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so a safe estimate would be between .36-.38 right?
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Old 05-16-2007, 06:15 PM
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Default RE: drag coefficient of s197

I saw it posted in another thread that the V6 drag coefficient is 0.355, but that is unconfirmed...
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Old 05-17-2007, 02:20 AM
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I'm getting .355... forgot the site though
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Old 05-17-2007, 02:20 AM
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between .35 and .38 is the drag coefficient for most vans/suvs
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