Moparman1972 wrote:I want to try and keep the looks of the car, which was why I wanted, if possible, to divert air behind the grille rather than change it. That would be a bigger challenge than popping a nosecone on it
I agree!
Firstly, that bronze or gold 68 i saw - i can't rememebr if it was Mopar action or Mopar Muscle. Maybe a Google search, or on their websites search. It was a very interesting car, not least as well, the custom interior which was not stupidly custom, the Hemi (of course) engine and neat little unobtrusive custom mods, along with the redesigned front end.
Secondly, it will be much more of a challenge to do something useful with the air hitting the front, rather than just tacking on an ugly nose cone. That's what they did for the Daytona Chargers of course, but that still required a hell of a lot of testing and design.
But i think the biggest hurdle will be designing and making the test equipment to determine where exactly the air is going, and how much, and into what places, when it hits the frontal area. Just guessing would certainly lead to many hours of frustrated fabrication attempts.
You can't minimise the frontal AREA without destroying the Chal's looks, so you have to do something with the air by redirecting it. Learning some aerofoil design/Venturi Effect (aircraft wings and lift and downforce etc) would be a good start