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Old 08-09-2014, 11:37 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by chillsworld View Post
So you're telling me my radiator ducting becomes a secondary form of propulsion as air flies out the hood?
Apparently it was worth several mph on the P51 fighter back in WWII, enough that they studied and optimized the effect. I don't have a reference handy but I think one or more of the NACA papers at the NASA archive deal with this. On a car at 55 mph, who knows :-).
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