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Old 05-29-2013, 10:22 PM   #21 (permalink)
kach22i
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I was taking a walk today and noticed an original Audio TT, one without the rear spoiler which they added after the first few months of sales. Apparently the rear lift could be dangerous under certain conditions and they sought to limit lawsuits, so they gave and installed the spoilers for free and retrofit them to cars.

My thoughts went to....well you have to have airflow for a spoiler to work, so they at least had good airflow.

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This will make me no friends here, but screw it, I'd rather be right than popular. The template is not a religion to me, and cult followings make me nervous.

Add to the fact that the template is not 3D, and I might be a bit miffed about it in retrospect.

How can you have meaningful exercises based on a 2d shape anyway?

The larger you can make the template on your vehicle the better. A full 100% scale is best, but sometimes (most times) some scaled fit is better than nothing at all.

More car wind-tunnel and smoke images are found here:
http://bigmike.marlincrawler.com/for...php?topic=33.0

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