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Originally Posted by slowmover
I've enjoyed reading all your threads, BamZipPow, wherever found. Nice work, nicely done! Did you find that Democrat or Republican coroplast gave as good results as Libertarian? I was also wondering about loading the truck to GVWR (and/or rear GAWR) to see about road clearance issues.
Same for certified scale results: how heavy is the truck in normal use, and what is remaining factory payload? There comes a point where the FF/RR rake changes to "nose high" [relatively] -- even with the RM overloads. Call it questions about truck utility if you want. So I hope to see more as you learn more, and I know I'm not alone in following your experiments.
Interstate 45 is easy money for fuel mileage between Dallas/Houston . . nothing like the pain of I-35 from SA to Dallas!!
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Didn't make a note of which party gave me a better performance.
I didn't have any road clearance issues with standard driveway slopes. It's the extreme ones that I avoid.
I just took out everything from the bed of the truck...including the topper. It raised the back end about 3"...so the clearance on the rear skirts went from 5" to 8". This removal of the topper is in preparation fer working on a simple aero cap. I lowered the diffuser to bring the angle back close to 4°.
I wonder if the belly pan and diffuser will have any effect on the tailgate being up or down now. Guess I'll have to experiment to find out.