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Old 03-10-2016, 09:21 AM   #18
tomonomics
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Originally Posted by The Radium King View Post
another thought - if you look at the roofline on a cayman, boxster hardtop, etc., it rises as it leaves the windscreen, then starts to drop once past the roll bar (presumably to provide headroom). by angling the targa hoop forwards as you have, it is now at a much higher point in the roofline than it would be if angled backwards, and is actually higher than the windscreen as currently designed - gonna grab a lot of air.
Agreed. The 918 is a spyder, it doesn't have that large space for air behind the seats like the Boxster would. The new 911 Targa has an adjustable wind blocker at the top of the windshield header, which helped reduce buffeting in the one I drove, but did create a little more wind noise.
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