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Originally Posted by GKRenegade
Seems the renegade has recessed headlights and grill. If I put thin clear plastic to smooth it all out, that should help quite a bit with drag yes? If I did that with each recessed item and light on the front, it would have next to no drag especially if I were to silicone all edges. Any thoughts? And I did look under the jeep. No belly pan of any kind. But looks like I can find mounting points. Any reason I shouldn't just wall up the entire underside? Do I need to leave any gaps?
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The nose of your JEEP constitutes less than 6% of it's overall drag.
And even though the grille is recessed,all the radii around are generous enough to provide fully-attached flow there.It takes very little to be effective
Your problem is the horrific wake
You need some sort of boat-tailing to tame that drag.It's the only thing known to work in 95-years of research.
It could be something like in the lower image,a box cavity combined with extra cargo storage
This is the goose that lays the golden eggs.