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Old 10-07-2011, 12:50 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
What you're missing is that covers over such a feature won't improve aero.
I don't know if that is true. When Hucho discusses "optimization" many of the examples of alterations are quite small and at the front end. There will be no way to know if the covers helped or hurt because he cannot produce a test that would be sensitive enough, but that's not the same as saying they "won't improve aero"--seems to me.
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