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MetroMPG · 08-21-2008, 05:32 PM

groar: I'm not sure. All I can say is all the small things add up, even if they're individually worth only a few percent or even fractions of a percent. Eventually I'll do coastdown testing to calculate the car's "new" Cd, but I want to do a few more things before that.

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