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Originally Posted by California98Civic
Your original wheels seem pretty good aerodynamically. They have holes, but they are small, and the surface is mostly flat. If you find the time, use your Ultra Gauge to A-B-A test this mod? Have you thought of deleting the passenger side mirror? My hunch from my experience would be that there might be bigger gains for you there.
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Are you talking about the ones in the picture in the garage? I haven't had those on since I bought the car from my parents, they rattled at low speeds and were annoying. Now that I think about it, I should have just kept them, covered the holes, and done something to stop the rattling.
Because I have to cut the zipties to remove them, they'll only be coming off when I have to remove the tires (I have wire cutters in the door pocket in case I need to remove them quickly). There aren't any good flat roads around here to test on, anyway. As long as mods don't hurt my mileage, they stay. The covers are going to get a coat of black spraypaint to make them less noticeable, my friends are embarrassed to be seen in it.
I would love to delete the passenger mirror, the mirrors on this generation of Civic seem to be especially large in relation to the car. All I need to do is find a way to mount a blindspot mirror in a way that it shows the same area that my current convex blindspot mirrors do.
I'll hopefully get the wheel skirts done this weekend, I really need to free up my back seat. I was going to do them from the bottom of the wheel well, but because the tire sticks out at the bottom, I'll probably just do them down to where the tire starts to get in the way.