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Old 08-18-2011, 07:09 PM   #111 (permalink)
graydonengineering
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Frontier 2wd 2.4L 5 speed - '98 Nissan Frontier XE
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
It's almost an open-wheeled vehicle! The entire sides would be turbulence between the tire faces,certainly negating some of the 'positive' features.
Manly though,like a pop-up castration-mine.
Yea, the body of the car has a very nice profile but the side of the car is a aero train wreck. Not sure what the deal is with the rear wheel wells, I'm guessing there is a small radiator on eather side so the open face surves as the "grill".

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