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Old 03-07-2012, 06:51 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by yostumpy View Post
you know, those little plastic bonnet mounted windshields that divert the air, so the bugs go over the roof not on the screen, do they help any in day to day aero stuff?
I have an old VHS of Texas Tech University's 'Project Headwind' in which they video-graphed smoke flow over a model F-250 Dualie pickup with various aero mods.
An upright bug-deflector caused complete flow separation over the entire bonnet,windscreen,and header.
Textbook terrible!
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