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Old 08-16-2009, 01:49 AM   #17 (permalink)
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would it at best be equal to reducing the frontal area of the car an amount equal to the smallest section of the pipe running through the car?
Exactly the question I was thinking about. Does the fact that you are moving air from the highest to the lowest pressure area give you a greater/smaller/equal effect as the same frontal area reduction taken from the outside of the vehicle?

I could easily get a ten inch pipe (78 sq/in area) through if I really went off the deep end and did this. It would have to give me the equivalent of more than half a square foot off the frontal area

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