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Sam Powell · 10-01-2013, 06:17 PM

Thanks for the nice comments.I have been watching the progress of the blue tooth android connection for awhile. I am afraid the droid/blue tooth connection is over my head at this point. From the FB comments I read I am not the only one to feel this way. I will look into it further though. Thanks for bringing it up.

For now, I would like to refocus the discussion on the airdam theories floating around. I will get a thread started, or look for an existing one on the fuel usage monitoring on Megasquirt. I got the idea for the front pan and splitter from a British publication that is on line in which a fellow added a pan to an early Prius and saw a significant improvement in actual mileage measured. After reading on line a bit I could see that with the extremely dirty lower area on these old Mopars, a front air dam was kind of a no brainer. The bumpers are high, and there is much stuff hanging out down below there. The radiator core support, K member, and sway bar all create quite of a bit of obstruction. So I designed a metal pan to cover the area between the bumper and the radiator lower edge, which drops down at about a 15 degree angle, and then designed the air dam to hang down as low as the lowest part, and finish it off below with a level, full lower pan. A splitter apparently is designed to create down force at speed. This is a feature I do not really need, but thought it looked cool, and likely is not hurting anything. The finishing touch is the tabs I added in front of the wheels. Research shows that this sometimes helps, and sometimes does not help much, but I decided to add them just in case.

Now I wish to improve the frontal area a bit more by blocking off the radiator when not needed. I would like to automate it somehow, but may end up simply putting a louvered vent cap of some kind in there and working it with a manual cable, or motor actuated with a switch. This would help with quicker warm up if nothing else.

Any ideas along those lines, or links to pages where this has been done or discussed would be eagerly read. Thanks again. I have been reading other threads here and soaking stuff up as much as possible for a newcomer.

Sam

10-01-2013, 06:17 PM	#15 (permalink)
Sam Powell EcoModding Lurker Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 50 Thanks: 0 Thanked 8 Times in 6 Posts	Thanks for the nice comments.I have been watching the progress of the blue tooth android connection for awhile. I am afraid the droid/blue tooth connection is over my head at this point. From the FB comments I read I am not the only one to feel this way. I will look into it further though. Thanks for bringing it up. For now, I would like to refocus the discussion on the airdam theories floating around. I will get a thread started, or look for an existing one on the fuel usage monitoring on Megasquirt. I got the idea for the front pan and splitter from a British publication that is on line in which a fellow added a pan to an early Prius and saw a significant improvement in actual mileage measured. After reading on line a bit I could see that with the extremely dirty lower area on these old Mopars, a front air dam was kind of a no brainer. The bumpers are high, and there is much stuff hanging out down below there. The radiator core support, K member, and sway bar all create quite of a bit of obstruction. So I designed a metal pan to cover the area between the bumper and the radiator lower edge, which drops down at about a 15 degree angle, and then designed the air dam to hang down as low as the lowest part, and finish it off below with a level, full lower pan. A splitter apparently is designed to create down force at speed. This is a feature I do not really need, but thought it looked cool, and likely is not hurting anything. The finishing touch is the tabs I added in front of the wheels. Research shows that this sometimes helps, and sometimes does not help much, but I decided to add them just in case. Now I wish to improve the frontal area a bit more by blocking off the radiator when not needed. I would like to automate it somehow, but may end up simply putting a louvered vent cap of some kind in there and working it with a manual cable, or motor actuated with a switch. This would help with quicker warm up if nothing else. Any ideas along those lines, or links to pages where this has been done or discussed would be eagerly read. Thanks again. I have been reading other threads here and soaking stuff up as much as possible for a newcomer. Sam