[s-cars] An interesting FMIC "fact" (?)

[Djdawson2 at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/26/04 10:25:10 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
forgied at direct.ca writes:

> Frontal
> area: This is a rapidly decreasing function. If the proper core size is
> used, then doubling it will definitely not double the efficiency. More
> likely, doubling the core would raise the efficiency about 5% and cost
> twice the  necessary amount and add substantially to the weight.
> 

Yep, right on all accounts.  Those are exactly the points that seem to 
indicate a top to bottom core with more rows than you can get using a side to side 
makes more sense.  The odd thing is that ASW's testing seems to indicate that 
that rule of thumb isn't applying too well in practice.  That doesn't make 
sense to me.
Dave