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Originally Posted by orbywan
Hi basjoos, impressive project. Any idea how much of a gain enclosing the front wheels made on this project? Thanks. The aerocivic I mean.
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I didn't have a fuel consumption device (Supermid) installed on my car at the time I installed most of my aeromods, so I had to use tank fillup calculations and change in coasting performance to evaluate my mods. The front wheel covers made a noticeable improvement in the coasting performance, but I also installed full rear wheel covers while going through that tank so I wasn't able to correlate it to a numbers improvement in mileage. The front wheel covers help by smoothing the air flow going down the side of the car. Watch a car driving on a wet road and you can see the turbulent spray come boiling out of the front wheel well openings. The covers eliminate that.