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Old 05-31-2010, 04:15 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Front wheel top

Some front wheel skirts could be great but too much complicated for me to be done in a safe way

You may have seen this picture in a previous post :


The picture has been taken so the right wheels are aligned. You can see that the rear side of the wheel well upper half is much more external than its front side, which makes me think about a parachute effect

Inspired by NeilBlanchard's scion XA (see post 244 in page 25 : Scion xA aero mods) I build some front wheel tops (in opposite to full length skirts).

Here are two pictures :



At full stop and at very slow speed the wheel doesn't touch the top. I had to turn at much higher speed and with the steering wheel at max right position to hear the left wheel rubbing against the top, but it didn't moved.

If I cut some more chloroplast to put it at the rear side of the front wheels, as did NeilBlanchard, I'm afraid that they will be ejected by the parachute effect as soon as I will leave the city...

If the tops survive a couple days then I will paint them in black

Denis.

PS shouldn't I change my nick to be something like chloroplasTapper ?
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