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Old 09-13-2018, 11:21 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Thank you for finding it, that was a good thread.

Brings to mind a new question though; when a car is lowered so much and chin spoilered so much that it almost behaves like a surface blister, does the pressure wave change enough to warrant an optimized shape change?

That is to say, the lower you go, the more slope you need at the front?

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And in the same vein of thought; the higher you go the more important it is to curve the chin inward and not have an abrupt splitter-like "cut-off" that could cause turbulence below it.

Or are these two different phenomena?
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