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Old 09-26-2012, 04:20 PM   #44 (permalink)
AndrzejM
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Belly pan plans and thoughts

I want to share something with you and to know your opinion on my ideas. The thing is that Berta has 3 levels of the belly.

As you can see front of the car is pretty high according to the lowest point of the body. There is a second level that is in the middle and the IC air outlet is located at this level. See the side view.

I'm thinking that can cause a pressure to build under the car and it lower the IC efficiency.

I want to build a bellypan but I'm thinking of two options.
Option1:

As you can see I'm just extending the IC outlet
Option2:

I want to extend bellypan under IC outlet and use under pressure that should be at the exit point of the new IC outlet.

What do you think of that? Maybe you have any other idea for me? I'm open to suggestions.
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