View Single Post
Old 12-28-2009, 01:30 AM   #13 (permalink)
Christ
Moderate your Moderation.
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Troy, Pa.
Posts: 8,919

Pasta - '96 Volkswagen Passat TDi
90 day: 45.22 mpg (US)
Thanks: 1,369
Thanked 430 Times in 353 Posts
Carlos -

You see the spoiler in the image of the Storm?

If you remove that, the deck lid is basically flat. If you notice on the EV1, the decklid is sloped, although not as deeply as the rear window, to continue the reduction of the trailing wake. It's kind of like a Kamm shape, I suppose.

What I'm proposing is the use of a ************ to make a wraparound "spoiler" that leads from about 1/3 of the way up the rear window to just past the edge of the deck lid, following that angle.



**************** = Whatever it comes down to being.

Your chop of the EV1 tail is revealing, though. By comparing the C-pillars, we find that the EV1 is slightly longer than the Storm, and the deck line lower, while the window conclusion is in nearly the same place relative to the ground line.

That, of course, means that without serious body work, the Storm won't have the same body treatment, but I can get the basic taper easily enough, though I'll lose part of the rear window visibility.
__________________
"¿ʞɐǝɹɟ ɐ ǝɹ,noʎ uǝɥʍ 'ʇı ʇ,usı 'ʎlǝuol s,ʇı"

  Reply With Quote