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Old 10-22-2010, 05:57 PM   #22 (permalink)
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mirrors/A-pillars

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Originally Posted by orange4boy View Post
Nice work Phil,

I love how you covered the headlights/grille. I did the same for my grille but never got around to doing the headlights.

Any thoughts on smaller mirrors? I'm still hoping to do that myself sometime.

What do you think about the idea of A-pillar "fillers" I had the idea of creating plexi bubbles like those rain drip guards but they would fill the area where the vortex forms instead of stopping drips. Thoughts?
Commuting is pretty scary and I'm going to stay with the bigger glass.Eliminating the mirrors altogether on the CRX made no difference at 100 mph,I don't think modern mirrors are the liability they once were for the good they do.
As to the A-pillar vortex,it seems like the 'bubble' would have to extend so far out to the sides,that the increase in frontal area would cancel out the benefit of the vortex elimination.
An EV-1 windshield would solve all this but they've gone the way of the Easter Island Lumber Co..
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