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Old 11-29-2009, 09:45 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Looks good.

I'd be more concerned about those window shades than the rear spoiler, though. I bet removing them would make more of an improvement than the rear skirts have.

FYI, I did A-B-A tests on rear skirts on your style of Corolla:

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...-camry-84.html

The difference was pretty small.

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Originally Posted by Cd View Post
* Your back glass has a pretty steep angle, so you most likely have detached flow. Doing a tuft test would show where the separation is occurring.
I've also done tuft testing. You can see the separation bubble on the rear glass in this thread:

http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...olla-2390.html
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