[windrider919]

Great site for maybe finding a software package that will be powerful enough to actually realistically predict how a shape mod to a car will react. I am a skeptic because I have been burned so many times. To often freeware has not been able to do what it promised. Unless you become a super geek on it and can tweak it to work. And few of us really want to become a specialist programmer in some limited program. Did you have a program from that site that will do CFD of complex 3d shapes like a car? I mentioned Solidworks because I know it is a mainstream program that will be supported and can do the task. I looked at OpenFOAM but it only runs on Linux and I do not want to learn that too just to run OpenFOAM.

The point is that not everyone can invest the time to learn all this stuff. So if the ones who did/do have the time could help out all of us to better our vehicles by setting up a place where each of us could test our ideas and then have that available for the next guy to build on. The next person could look at the tests and not have to do it again. And either use what was proven to work or they could try something new. Eventually a new ecomodder could come on board, look up airdams for his particular vehicle and seeing what works and what does not, built it one time, efficient and right. That means more cars actually on the street instead of their owners sitting on the couch saying "I'd do it if I could be shown how." and nothing happening.

I personally have spent weeks, most evenings, reading threads here and I still do not have answers that many of you had years ago. Lots of opinions but no real hard data on how to DO the mods.

Making the CFD model for our vehicle is probably beyond most of us who are not attending college or university somewhere where you can pick other minds and get advice easily. So if we had a good CFD program where the basic model (for that person) could be shared we would make more progress. And even if we don't do the CFD here we could still establish a library of car models that members could use.