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Old 10-19-2009, 12:17 PM   #11 (permalink)
Piwoslaw
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And I also thought about venting them to the wheel wells... but aren't we always trying to remove airflow from them with things like wheel skirts and flat moon discs? Why would we even think about adding more flow there it just contradicts everything I believe...
I think wheel skirts are to keep turbulent air out, but maybe it's OK to let air in in a controlled manner. Here is a sentence from an Interview with BMW aerodynamicist Hans Kerschbaum:
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in today's cars the air no longer exits around the transmission but through the wheelwells, where there is a lowpressure zone that sucks the air out.

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