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basjoos · 10-21-2009, 08:30 PM

The low ground clearance and the side skirts make it difficult to get good photos of the underside. I need to get the car up on a lift to get good underside photos. Routing the cooling air out through the front wheel wells was easy. Large openings for the FWD drive shafts were already present on the car, so once I underpanelled the underside of the engine compartment, the cooling air had nowhere else to go but out through the drive shaft openings (some cooling air also runs out through the exhaust tunnel to the right rear wheel well).

My car was on display today at the Rutherford County High School, where my sister in law teaches and asked if I could bring the car by for their science and technology classes to see. I heard some of the students went to the library immediately afterwards to start researching the subject of low drag cars. Ecomodder also got some exposure.

Confirmed lean burn up through 91mph. Still haven't reached the max speed for lean burn.

10-21-2009, 08:30 PM	#342 (permalink)
basjoos Master EcoModder Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Upstate SC Posts: 1,088 Aerocivic - '92 Honda Civic CX Last 3: 70.54 mpg (US) AerocivicLB - '92 Honda Civic CX Team Honda 90 day: 55.14 mpg (US) Camryglide - '20 Toyota Camry hybrid LE 90 day: 62.77 mpg (US) Thanks: 16 Thanked 676 Times in 302 Posts	The low ground clearance and the side skirts make it difficult to get good photos of the underside. I need to get the car up on a lift to get good underside photos. Routing the cooling air out through the front wheel wells was easy. Large openings for the FWD drive shafts were already present on the car, so once I underpanelled the underside of the engine compartment, the cooling air had nowhere else to go but out through the drive shaft openings (some cooling air also runs out through the exhaust tunnel to the right rear wheel well). My car was on display today at the Rutherford County High School, where my sister in law teaches and asked if I could bring the car by for their science and technology classes to see. I heard some of the students went to the library immediately afterwards to start researching the subject of low drag cars. Ecomodder also got some exposure. Confirmed lean burn up through 91mph. Still haven't reached the max speed for lean burn. __________________ aerocivic.com Last edited by basjoos; 10-21-2009 at 09:19 PM..