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Old 03-10-2018, 05:03 PM   #238 (permalink)
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After some radiusing of the front edges:





Hucho has some suggestions for mitigating that gap in Chapter 5; radiused corners and a fin down the center gives almost the same drag reduction as a full gap-filling treatment on a trailer. Since this will probably behave better than a trailer, being closer to the body than any trailer could be, I'll go that route and see what it does.
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