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Old 07-25-2014, 10:06 PM   #9 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
*You do need to be on a flat level surface
*You should have 300-lbs of ballast in the front seats so the car will have its 'driving' inclination
*Locate the spot where your diffuser will begin
*Measure its elevation above the ground
*Then measure back to where the diffuser will terminate to get your horizontal distance,your 'run.'
*If you have a scientific calculator,you can use the trigonometric function to get your dimension multiplier
*If say,you do use 4-degrees,enter: 4 tan,to get 0.069926.
*If you multiply your 'run' dimension by this value,it will give you your 'rise' at the back of the diffuser for 4-degrees.
*This will be the exact distance above your original starting elevation for the rear of the diffuser,to get your 4-degree slope.
For that brief effective lesson you deserve a dispensation, sir. Thanks twice.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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