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Old 06-24-2010, 08:25 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I'm just flat out impressed. Very Mad Max!





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Also, the wooden belly pan dropped by clearance to a minimum of 4" around the mid section of the car. The front and rear sections are angled so I have a bit more clearance.
Ok, does that mean that the bottom of the side skirts are the height of the belly pan? :



If yes, then this is interesting. On one hand you are adding to frontal area and "compressing" the volume of air that travels under the car. On the other hand you are smoothing the flow out. I would guess that if you want to have a pan that low, you need to stop the air at the lower-front of the car, aka a frontal air dam at the same height as the belly pan like so :



But I'm just specumalatin'. Let's wait to see what the experts have to say.

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