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Old 05-03-2011, 05:50 PM   #29 (permalink)
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heat but no light?

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Originally Posted by donee View Post
So, the air flyies up the forward ramp surfaces, and gets shot off, creating a delamination bubble.
This is highly, highly unlikely.

Before you spend more time with zig zags and turbulators on the leading edge of your roof, you owe it to yourself (and to other readers of this thread -- members and non-members alike) to _demonstrate_ that the underlying "problem" you're trying to correct actually exists in the first place.

Otherwise we're generating lots of heat, and no light in this thread. Creating unnecessary turbulence, even.

I believe that tuft testing will show the airflow is doing nothing unusual at the windshield/roof transition.
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