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19bonestock88 · 07-15-2019, 11:19 PM

No issues with either rubbing or with it flopping about in the middle, it seems fairly solid up to approximately 72mph (EOC downhill)... no plans on combining wheel skirt, wheel pant and air separation plate, as I don’t have pieces of coroplast big enough to construct the pieces like I’d like them to be... I wanted the flutes to run along the length of the skirt instead of along the height so as to avoid needing a metal bracing strip along the bottom... I did achieve my goal there...

I also did some testing and it appears that my coasting speeds have improved from the skirts and plates, on the long *extremely slight* downhill I measure coasting speed on, I hit a high of 47 or 48mph... was going fast enough I actually scrubbed speed in the little turn in the middle of the run and ended at the same 46mph that I hit beforehand... this thing is coasting *extremely* well

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19bonestock88 Master EcoModder Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: KY Posts: 1,352 IGL - '04 Saturn Ion Team Saturn 90 day: 56.19 mpg (US) Thanks: 63 Thanked 366 Times in 269 Posts	No issues with either rubbing or with it flopping about in the middle, it seems fairly solid up to approximately 72mph (EOC downhill)... no plans on combining wheel skirt, wheel pant and air separation plate, as I don’t have pieces of coroplast big enough to construct the pieces like I’d like them to be... I wanted the flutes to run along the length of the skirt instead of along the height so as to avoid needing a metal bracing strip along the bottom... I did achieve my goal there... I also did some testing and it appears that my coasting speeds have improved from the skirts and plates, on the long extremely slight downhill I measure coasting speed on, I hit a high of 47 or 48mph... was going fast enough I actually scrubbed speed in the little turn in the middle of the run and ended at the same 46mph that I hit beforehand... this thing is coasting extremely well __________________ My current Ecotec project... My last Ecotec project...