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Old 08-08-2008, 09:11 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cfg83 View Post
Xringer -

Interesting. When I look at the EV1, I notice the side of the car "curve under" the car. I think that extending the wheel skirt down would have required them to bulge it out, which would have increased their frontal area.

I want to do something similar, partially for my own aesthetic reasons. Here's a mock-up :



I put an angle on it because that angle matches the bottom rear horizontal of the bumper.

CarloSW2
If shorter, it would be less affective, but if the bulge was going to be large,
would it be a wash? One canceling out the other?

If the bulge wasn't going to be big on your car (and it wasn't too hard
to install), I would skip the aesthetics and go with full coverage..

I'm not sure how much good any size skirt is going to do on my CRV,
since the inside volume of the wheel well is so large..
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