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Originally Posted by sirchris
2 feet?!?!?!? That's crazy! Guess I'm too safe of a driver to try that. I'm curious how well and how long the 3m tape will hold too. I thought about using it to cover gaps around headlight and hood.
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The example was just to illustrate the savings potential from drag reduction.
Here's there drag table from the experiment,shared by member jalmir,which I added a delta-Cd table to
If the Mythbusters car had Cd 0.35 for instance,at 2-feet clearance,it's drag would be the equivalent of Cd 0.077.
And the Chrysler engine reacted favorably.
If one were to momentarily approach an 18-wheeler and check the instant MPG readout,they'd know instantly,the absolute MPG maximum possible from streamlining.
Then one could act accordingly.