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aerohead · 04-03-2010, 02:59 PM

I would encourage you to go to the FLOW-IMAGES (brain-food) Photo-Gallery 3 and look at the Rabbit in the wind tunnel.
It has a front end very much like yours and there is no separation there,although an enormous wake,mostly responsible for it's Cd 0.42.
My 'ideal' nose added almost zero benefit to my CRX,whereas the boat-tail got me above 60-mpg.
Hucho emphasizes,that once we achieve attached flow,there is no point to keep softening.He also emphasizes that improvements are going to come from mods to the back of the car.

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aerohead Master EcoModder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sanger,Texas,U.S.A. Posts: 15,914 Thanks: 24,000 Thanked 7,227 Times in 4,654 Posts	photo I would encourage you to go to the FLOW-IMAGES (brain-food) Photo-Gallery 3 and look at the Rabbit in the wind tunnel. It has a front end very much like yours and there is no separation there,although an enormous wake,mostly responsible for it's Cd 0.42. My 'ideal' nose added almost zero benefit to my CRX,whereas the boat-tail got me above 60-mpg. Hucho emphasizes,that once we achieve attached flow,there is no point to keep softening.He also emphasizes that improvements are going to come from mods to the back of the car.