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freebeard · 03-10-2018, 07:33 PM

I was thinking about prior to your road trip and tuft testing, before you commit to the final shape. Only trying to be helpful, not contrary.

It looks pretty good. I'd radius the horizontal edges because otherwise the smooth wake your working for will be disrupted in the last foot. It might anyway, that notch is big enough for recirculation.

The forward facing fins are called Vortex traps on semi-trailers (lower right).

You might put clear plastic vortex traps in the taillight cutout, now that I think about it. Are you going to have turn signal repeaters?

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freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,557 Thanks: 8,092 Thanked 8,881 Times in 7,329 Posts	I was thinking about prior to your road trip and tuft testing, before you commit to the final shape. Only trying to be helpful, not contrary. It looks pretty good. I'd radius the horizontal edges because otherwise the smooth wake your working for will be disrupted in the last foot. It might anyway, that notch is big enough for recirculation. The forward facing fins are called Vortex traps on semi-trailers (lower right). You might put clear plastic vortex traps in the taillight cutout, now that I think about it. Are you going to have turn signal repeaters? __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ____________________ . .Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar --You can't say that is a coincidence.