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Old 09-10-2010, 11:34 PM   #21 (permalink)
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2007 ion2 -

When I've been car hunting, I've been thinking about an Ion. I've always been fond of the functional-cool spoilers on the Bonneville racers :



When I apply the teardrop shape, it looks like it fits pretty well :


* - In the above picture, the fins of the spoiler are larger than the flat spoiler, so the tear-drop shape appears to "cut into" the spoiler.

With that in mind I looked at your Ion :



And made a spoiler :


* - The horizontal white line in the spoiler is where the flat spoiler would be.

But this is just one example. From what I (think I) have learned here, the idea is to make a spoiler that "meets the tear-drop shape". Now, a Kamm-spoiler is better, but this is a compromise that can look "normal" to non-Ecomodders.

CarloSW2

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