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Originally Posted by jtbo
I did read about thread of your friend, who has Megane diesel in France that he has got really a lot better mileage with his mods, and it has given me idea of buying a Megane Coupe, just need to find finance for that. Megane Coupe has quite nice rear shape and I will need a new car in a year anyway as this my current one has bad gearbox by sound of it.
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Groar is getting amazing fuel economy
His mods (and those a few other ecomodders) inspired me to go ahead and make my own mods.
Iirc, the Coupe version has slightly lower frontal area, but I have no idea if the Cd is better, and by how much it can be improved. Unless you need a new car, you might want to keep the ZX for a few years and ecomod it to death
Since the transmission needs replacing, maybe it can be regeared with taller gearing?
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Originally Posted by jtbo
Anyway I would like to test aero mods bit more, pics of 307sw do show that I should of made my kammback bit differently, also when I look others there was one great flaw in my design, there was big gap to sides of vehicle, also most of others seem to have it dropping down at higher angle.
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The rule of thumb is a 12°-14° drop, and the same for the inward angle of the Kammback's sides. Slightly more towards the rear end if it's a long boattail. Have you seen the aero template floating around the forum?
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Here is first 50% in poor photo:
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Looks nice from that angle. Do you have a side view?