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Originally Posted by aardvarcus
Thank you everyone for your input and feedback.
I have previously sucessfully used conveyor belt (baling belt from TSC) for my front air dam. ( http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post453541) It works very well and is quite stiff when it is curved in one dimension and rigidly fixed at the top. It does not deflect even with my relatively minimal curve on my air dam on highway/interstate speeds, so in even sharper curves I would not worry about wind deflecting the fairing. The conveyor belt does have enough give that it would give if it contacted a rigid object to deflect and bounce back, so no real need for hinges.
I did some rough sketching in Sketch-Up, and attached some renderings of a front tire and fairings. Hopefully this will be more clear than my poor sketches in the first post. |
*They'd be worth trying,but I'd be concerned,that without full wheel skirts on first,or very close wheel/wheel-arch seals and full wheel covers,that the transverse jet of air which blows out of the wheelhouse would ruin the flow in the area that the fairings would be operating in.
This flow is perpendicular to the main airstream.It really shows up in rain.
*The fairings have got to have a fighting chance if they're gonna do you any good.
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