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Originally Posted by aeroboy
It's amazing that the taping of the body work seams and the small hood duct resulted in a reduction of 18 counts of drag. Looks like I'll be pulling out the painters tape when I get home.
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"The first mod was to seal off openings in the
grille, splitter, and fascia....
Meaning they sealed off the front end. Taping the body seams has little effect on drag in modern cars
Check out this link and follow it halfway down.
http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/paint-b...-aerodynamics/
You will find this comment :
" Taping seams: Rarely if ever are body-panel seams so large and misaligned that smoothing them with duct tape will make a measurable difference in Cd. We tried it on our Camaro, and it did nothing. "
This was on a 1980 Camaro with body seams big enough to walk through.
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