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Originally Posted by jimepting
A question Phil,
Do you think it is worthwhile to use silicon, cut level and to shape, to fill the front end gaps around the headlights, bumper, etc. ? I don't recall finding anything in Hucho on the subject.
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Jim,I think Hucho dodges this one 'cause he seems to dwell more with production than modding.
GM taped every gap,except the driver door on the EV-1 for their LSR runs at Ft.Stockton,so you can gather that they weren't leaving anything on the table.
Fiat taped all body seams on a Ritmo for a wind tunnel study in the 1980s and dropped the drag around 30% ( I'd have to dig out the article to say for certain).
I think its fruit we can pluck.Any perturbation of the airfield around the car is absorbing energy from the engine so the small details make sense to go after.
I think Mike has addressed this some with respect to his AeroCivic.
If I can ever get to Bonneville on time I'll be sweating out all these details myself!
The guys (and gals ) use '200-mph tape' on everything out there.