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Old 03-01-2008, 05:08 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
I guess people can research this stuff to death if they want to,but if universities are duplicating effort,its a waste of precious resources.I think pickup airflow is now firmly understood and people ought to just build what's been known to work for a long time now.
Agreed, Phil.

The motivation for posting this thread is to create an online reference to some reasonably good data supporting the aero cap idea. (I'll go have a look over at MaxMPG for that supporting image from Texas Tech.)

While it may be clear to US what works & what doesn't, recent events (see the ToyotaNation fracas over Brett's cap) suggest that there may be some use in posting some documentation online. Thus this thread.
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