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Old 07-23-2019, 09:51 AM   #61 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by California98Civic View Post
That angle is too sharp to taper effectively, and you don't want to be building some sort of boat tail extension I've heard you say. Seems like your best option is to taper the trailing Edge of the wheel well skirt a little and create a box cavity like separation point at the tail end of the car.
That matches my intuition on it. I should also point out that there are cooling vents through the liners into the wheel wells from the motor, so that might actually help with extraction - though cooling doesn't seem to be a problem as it is.

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