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Originally Posted by Sam Powell
Thanks.If I understand you correctly, you are envisioning attaching something to the rear, and not the car body.
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Nope, everything gets fitted to the underside of the car.
Or (partly) on the rear axle.
See drawing ... nobody's going to hire me as a designer I'm afraid
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Both of these areas are acting as parachutes now.
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Doing away with this parachuting is a good part of the improvement you get with a belly pan
The aim of a belly pan is to improve upon a vey bad flow situation underneath a car.
Fitting a partial belly pan aft, doesn't help much as the airflow that reaches it has already gone bad.
Fitting a partial belly pan under the front does help as it delays the flow going bad.
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There is a guy who shows up with a 64 VW beetle regularly, and I was especially interested in the bottom of that car. It is completely flat. It is about as flat as you could imagine the underside of a car being.
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It's all about re-inventing the wheel ...
Car manufacturers have long known what they can do to improve aerodynamics.
It's about time they start doing it again ...