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Old 07-09-2016, 01:50 PM   #151 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NoD~ View Post
aerohead, so... with enough bugs on the front of my grill... same effect?
*you don't even need those.
*above 20-mph,you'll have about an inch of laminar boundary layer (according to Feysal Ahmed's Master's Thesis),and the rest of the car will be full-blown turbulent boundary layer,with fully-attached flow if the body is shaped correctly.

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