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Old 10-08-2013, 04:40 AM   #13 (permalink)
RedDevil
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Some more ideas:
- Loose the mudflaps. Very short flaps may reduce air resistance, but yours are way too long.
- Set those gurneys ahead of the front wheels in your close up picture at a sideways slant, that will lower the pressure under the car. (they are like that under my car, as OEM)
- Add gurneys ahead of and behind the rear wheels to push the air out and back in.
(the 2012 Insight has gurneys - 'air splitters' - behind the rear wheels. See the link for details.
(EDIT) only registered users see the pictures, sorry. It is basically a rubber strip about a foot long and 2 inches wide, starts about behind the middle of the wheel almost straight aft and bends inwards to about 30 degrees toward the rear.
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