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Old 05-10-2018, 11:46 PM   #154 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by California98Civic View Post
Looks clean and like a spaceship! I think the side skirts behind the tires might be counter productive. Is that aft section open at the bottom facing the road? It will be more like a parachute that way. A rear diffuser more like what was on the circa 2006 Prius would have some of what you seem to want. The whole area behind the rear axle, under the car, it a parachute on a lot of these Civics.
The idea was to have them extend back but be open in the back, kind of to extend it in similar fashion to say a tail extension and to keep air from going back under the car where the rear bumper is a terrible parachute. How would it be counterproductive and parachute-like? Not doubting you, just curious.

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I like the side skirt & wheel skirt integration a lot.
Trying to find a way to minimize the transition to the skirts since the bottom of the skirt will have to extend about an inch out from the car to clear the wheel.
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