[MechEngVT]

Greetings! I just signed up here but had visited the site before looking at all the interesting aero mods some folks have worked on.

I'm a 29 year old mechanical design engineer who has had a lifelong interest in cars and constantly seek to learn more about vehicles. I read an article about hypermiling about a year ago and started to learn and apply a few techniques and according to my fuel log I'm a "hypermiler" now.

I drive a 2002 Dodge Ram 4x2 V8/5spd that is stock except a K&N air filter and vinyl rolling tonneau cover. All of my fuel log info comes from my work commute which varies between 44 and 50 miles round trip per day depending on roads, plus an occasional "other" use such as a dump load or Home Depot run. Mostly highway with an occasional toll plaza and/or traffic jam thrown in.

I'm interesting in learning more aero tricks until I'm confident enough to experiment on my own. I'd also like to try my hand at designing aero parts since I'm fairly SolidWorks CAD proficient and someday I'd like to try my hand at some Computational Fluid Dynamics, although I don't have such tools at my disposal quite yet.

See y'all around the forums,
Craig