View Single Post
Old 02-10-2008, 11:34 PM   #9 (permalink)
MetroMPG
Batman Junior
 
MetroMPG's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: 1000 Islands, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 12,533

Blackfly - '98 Metro
Team Metro
90 day: 67.07 mpg (US)

ForkenSwift - '92 Metro EV
90 day: 125.37 mpg (US)

U.F.O. - '00 Insight
Team Honda
90 day: 85.75 mpg (US)
Thanks: 302
Thanked 1,019 Times in 568 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by DifferentPointofView View Post
I've always wondered why people don't put dimples on dead stops like the hatch of a van :/ . Unless the object has to be round... then that wouldn't make sense, but if it does. I'd like to try it.
"Dead stops" - what's that?

EDIT: regardless, golf ball dimpling doesn't apply to automotive aero for a number of reasons.
__________________
Latest project: removable Geo Metro boat tail
Latest test: Massive cardboard air dam on a Geo Metro


www.MetroMPG.com - fuel efficiency info for Geo Metro owners
www.ForkenSwift.com - electric car conversion on a beer budget
  Reply With Quote