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Old 06-15-2010, 05:46 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by lunarhighway View Post
i just recalled that the first gen ford tempo was supposed to have a grill that acted in much the same way, so it looks like they know about this for a long time. odd than that something that could be included in a car without anyone even noticing is not used... especially when carmakers actually start adopting active grillblocks
I was thinking back to the 1970's Ford (Escort? Fiesta?) research on this. My under-bumper air intake is like an "upside-down" grill as compared to the Focus and has two major horizontal openings. I wonder if the same design would work "upside-down" for me? Assuming the scale is important, I think I could only get two slats per opening. The good part is that even though it looks "curvy", each opening is just a slanted rectangle, so it would be easy to fab this one up on a workbench and insert it into the opening.

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