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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
KB: maybe you've arleady seen this.... but bondo's is the Swiss army knife of truck caps! It opens like a hatchback, can be converted into a conventional square camper cap with the addition of side & rear curtains, and the upper hatch can be removed entirely for transporting tall objects. See this thread for photos: http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...d-cap-583.html
Also, regarding flow effects, you may be interested to view on-road tuft testing of a tapered bed cap: http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...per-11522.html . That thread somewhat addresses the issue of the flow transition from the side to upper surfaces (in that case a sharp transition, more likely to trip flow, yet it still appears to work well - though the upper angle is shallower than most). |
MetroMPG, thanks for the links. BTW, we had a 95 Metro from 'til 2000. Bare bones. We just drove the darn thing yet regularly saw ~50 mpg. DW still misses her little kiwi some times but we outgrew it. At 130k it still looked and performed like day 1. Suzuki done good. I'm glad to see there was more up side for the envelope pushers to find.
Rock on
KB