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Originally Posted by California98Civic
Another alternative to front wheel well covers would be a fairing that continues the body contour the point of contact with the tire, but make the last inch or two soft, perhaps brushes. You want to consider not just the aerodrag of the wheel but also the ventilation drag, which has been shown to be important to total drag in some applications. Full disc covers are good, but sometimes slightly vented covers are better because of how they address ventilation drag. Something similar is also probably true of wheel well covers, though the specific application would have to be tested to know what works best... one can also always guess!
Btw, too, the tail is a little fast, I think. You might look up some spoiler tests Julain Edgar posted here on EM (& probably on his YouTube channel). He claims good results on a Gen1 Insight, so probably worth a look.
Fabulous car.
Start a fuel economy log here so we can watch the progress?
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I'm sure that even though ventillated hubcaps might be better than solid ones, a full wheel fairing would be better. I'm not going to use any solution that lets the tire touch the cover, I much prefer one that will move via a connection to the steering knuckle in some way, even it's just as simple as having a pair of sticks welded/bolted to the knuckle that go around the wheel and just poke the fairing.
I have a small Discord (video game social communications platform) server that I am logging fuel in, but I stupidly put a tank of premium in first (the gas station had premium in the opposite spot as most do) and need to burn all that out and it's taking FOREVER because the car gets so much MPG. I also have Fuelly and will track every (infrequent) fuel-up. A spoiler might work, and I'll look into it in the future. I still have a lot of TLC to give the car before I get to significant body modifications like that.