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Old 11-26-2014, 02:53 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Strange. I posted a response, but it seems to have disappeared.

Isn't an alternator delete considered to be a 10% gain? In order to not see improvement, wouldn't you need to increase the mass of the car by twenty percent, presumably with batteries?

That is the only way that I could imagine an alternator delete not showing an improvement, while there are many variables with boat tails. It would be good to have specific results for the alternator delete, but I think there are far more ways that a boat tail could be inefficient.
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