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Old 07-10-2012, 11:07 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by TXwaterdog View Post
Those rims look very functional. It appears to suck air out from under the car. I bet it cools the brakes quite well. And they probably help keep the car glued to the ground. Now if they used them well enough to route air through them and help cool the engine/ driveline then that's even better. If they channel forward then it might even propel the car forward a bit. Overall looks like a design I've had in my head for a while.
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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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