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Old 07-13-2010, 03:37 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Nevyn View Post
uhh....there's a word for that. It's called "Primary."
Funny how words escape the mind sometimes!

I realize one issue with my suggestion is that you'd have to account for suspension travel within the wheel well... Might be able to mitigate that by limiting the "height" of the cover (so it doesn't extend much beyond the top of the wheel) and maximizing the "width" (front to back of wheel well). I would draw it, but my drawing skills are worse than a 2 year old's . Anyway, then the gap from top of wheel well to wheel cover could be closed using a short flexible skirt ("mini-skirt").

This is just arm-chair designing, of course... no idea if it would actually work in real life. Maybe a basjoos style front wheel skirt would be significantly easier to implement...

Last edited by NachtRitter; 07-13-2010 at 03:38 PM.. Reason: fix spelling
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