Jim,
Looking through all the pages of this thread(whew!!) I noticed you don't have any pictures of your Alien at night with all the running lights on. I'm really curious how all those LED's look, as well as how it all looks from the side when lit up.
as far as dealing with heavy cross winds, have you considered VG's on the front belly pan?
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my buddy put them on the front belly pan of his Civic and he agreed with the autospeed article, he noticed a significant difference in how it handled cross winds and passing Semi's