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Old 12-19-2011, 02:42 PM   #3 (permalink)
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A picture of the roof rack would help....

Round tubes create a large wake, almost a large as a flat plate of the same dimension.

If you could shape winglets around each tube, well maybe that could minimize the effect of the rack up there.

There is a lot of high velocity air in that location, so making the tubes into airfoils would be something I would think about.

Jim.
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