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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Is your goal to measure the MPG change (if any), or just to know whether there's an improvement?
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MetroMPG: Thanks for the good feedback. As it's generally agreed upon that belly pans produce improvements in MPG, this isn't really in question. I'm looking to accurately quantify the actual percentage gains of this belly pan on this truck. In doing research on this matter, I'm having a hard time finding this kind of data, so I figured I would develop it myself. My oberservation is that part of the reason there is a lack of information on belly pan improvements of MPGs on trucks is that:
1. it's complicated/difficult to fabricate an entire belly pan for a truck
2. it's complicated/difficult to accurately measure the improvements
As the belly pan seems to have the largest potential MPG impact on trucks aside from the aero-topper, I was surprised to find such lack of data.
As I'm new here and don't yet have a reputation, I don't want to appear rude in saying this, but here goes. I want to provide the community the most reliable and undisputable testing results possible. I'm not interested in less accurate methods, or less acceptable methods. From my research, A-B-A holds the most clout with the aero-modding community outside of wind tunnel/chassis dynomometer testing. Therefore, I'm asking the community for help on minimizing the questionably of a quite complex test, to reduce the potential skepticism once results are provided. Does that makes sense? I don't want to go to all this effort to later have everyone throw out my testing results.
-Stephen