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orange4boy · 07-20-2009, 03:14 PM

I just thought of some other questions I have not seen answered elsewhere.

Regarding the point of stagnation and the underbelly. Does the air under the car have a lower or higher pressure? I think it's a low pressure area but it's not obvious to me.

Is it better to have a sharply defined, upward sloping air dam parallel to the lowest points on the car or a bumper curved under the car from the stagnation point (like in the template?) the trailing edge of which terminates parallel to the lowest point under the car?

Thanks.

07-20-2009, 03:14 PM	#4 (permalink)
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