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Old 06-26-2016, 03:52 AM   #2 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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90 day: 66.42 mpg (US)

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Unless you have the knowledge and equipment to tune the position of the vortex generator very precisely, the vortex generators will only help if you get extremely lucky with position. The EVO VGs were very precisely tuned. We can't really hope to duplicate that in our garages. That's something like a consensus on VGs among the most engaged and experienced folks on this forum, from what I have seen.

Also a consensus, a kamm is better than a wing, and a boat tail is better than a kamm. I partial kamm off the top of the window and a flat trunk lid spoiler might be a good combination. An airdam, grill blocking, and wheel skirts are also typical recommendations. They seem to work very well in most scenarios.

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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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