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Old 07-10-2011, 03:42 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CFECO View Post
To each his own! I am a car guy first, and EcoModder second. What ever I drive I'd like to make it the most efficient I can, but not necessarily chop, cut, graft, and modify until it matches "The Template". What a boring life if we all drove around in templates. If this was my car, and I wished to Mod it, I think a 6.5 turbo diesel with some tall gears, would be easily capable of 25 mpg with very good performance. Someone should wind tunnel one of these just for the heck of it.
It has been done. In fact the article is posted somewhere on this forum.
The wind tunnel testing ( with images ) was done to prove whether or not the horizontal areas of the cars tail provided any lift at speed.
I think Aerohead posted the article.
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