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Old 01-23-2008, 05:56 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Blackfly - '98 Metro
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Darn you Californians and your good testing weather.

I've attempted to test rear skirts 3 times on 3 different vehicles: details here

In all cases, the tests were less than perfect, despite 2 of the 3 being A-B-A style (I concluded based on the 2 sets of A data that the drivetrain temps hadn't stablized).

Results were between 0.6% MPG improvement to 2.7%, with the largest impact seen on the Metro (which I think is due to the design & placement of the wheel arch).
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