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Old 10-17-2020, 08:42 PM   #44 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by AeroMcAeroFace View Post
MetroMPG, have you considered removing the template from the website seeing as it is so controversial or would removing it be too controversial?
Say what you want negatively about the template, but there have been many modifications built to follow it that have worked. I have done three myself, and got within 1% of the gains I had estimated. (5% half bedcover, 10% full bedcover, 5% kamm shell)

Could I have built something slightly better? Maybe... but what I did worked. So for my fourth big rear tapering modification, I am once again using it as my guide. If my fourth project doesn't deliver as I expect when I test it, I may alter my views but until then 3 for 3 isn't bad. I am always open to other suggestions for tapering patterns.

In fact, there are many examples of these sorts of "template modifications" documented in Julian's book. In fact, page 170 has a full page devoted to a T100 with a full bedcover and a tail... I wonder who built that one...I wonder who picked it as worthy for publication...
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