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Old 12-15-2015, 04:05 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Think about a partial belly pan. If you don't do something about the air exiting the plenum of the engine compartment, is will just speed up the air passing through the remaining opening.
So...essentially "sucking" more air through the remaining opening in the grille? Hmm...hadn't thought about that. Might be easier to just close the remaining grille opening and do more of a air dam then the belly pan. That's a lot of real estate underneath with the suspension to work around.

But, it also highlights the next experiment that I will try using the baseline (w/o grille block) and get the mechanical air swatter removed and see what difference that makes. My guess is that it will be a bigger improvement on FE given the large amount of air it is always moving...two drives up the driveway clears most of the leaves!
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