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Old 08-09-2017, 04:23 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Since the back end of the car is most important for aero, you need to pull the template forward so the top and bottom of the back end of the template matches the top and bottom of the back of your vehicle. You don't need to be concerned that the front end of the template is sitting at the front of your hood. In your example above the bottom of the template is well below the bottom of your RAV4. Pull the template forward and you will get a much more manageable boattail. The trick will be melding the fairly straight rear roofline of your vehicle with the curve of the template.
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