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Old 09-15-2008, 10:42 PM   #45 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
The middle two or 3 tufts at the trailing edge were swirling a fair amount; the outside ones were turbuent, but streaming mostly aft.

I think I read a comment Phil left somewhere that even a locked vortex takes energy to maintain, so reducing its size should help some as well... though obviously not enough for me to measure on this car with that VG arrangement.
Here's a dumb question. Airtabs are designed to target the trucking market. Could this mean that the Airtabs are "scaled" to work best with a shipping container? If yes, then maybe you could take the frontal area of a standard-issue shipping container and "downsize" the airtab to work with the frontal area of the Corolla. Here are standard-issue freight container dimensions :

Shipping container standard dimensions
Code:
40' Dry Freight Container

External Dimensions
Length: 40'
Width: 8'
Height: 8' 6"
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