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Originally Posted by euromodder
You won't get the full potential for improvement of a boattail until you sort out everything in front.
But you do gain a serious improvement even if the front of the vehicle is a brick.
Streamlining a brick : see what the air resistance does when you add fairings to a brick .
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the brick observation doesnt quite work so well with most vehicles, since they arent actually "brick shaped" your forgetting that most vehicles have a windshield and roof that is almost 24" above the rest of the body.
I think you could achieve some gain just by angling you hood up near the windshield. by raising your hood 1-2 inches at the hinges Im betting you would see a much better airflow transition. it doesnt take much, aerodynamics are very close to aqua-dynamics. air and water flow very similar over surfaces.