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Old 01-02-2012, 11:59 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Nearly all the factory air dams I see on the cars at work are scrapped pretty badly. We have to replace them on a good number of he cars as well.
My mini tire-deflector/airdams scraped all summer so I scrapped the idea for the winter before snow and ice scrapes them off completely.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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