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Originally Posted by freebeard
Not my battle. I gave up on criticizing the default template long ago.
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But don't you then feel guilty when you see people clearly going in the wrong direction when they follow the crap advice? People genuinely confused when their measurements / observations / thoughts don't at all match the template -
and all the guff that has been extrapolated from it. (The latter is the important part.)
I worked 8 years as a school teacher, another 8 as an adult trainer, and been modifying cars (and writing about it) for 35+ years. And I hate people being given the wrong information.
But that doesn't mean that there is not room for disagreement. For example, Vman455 and I disagree on the purpose/presence of vestigial front spoilers on modern cars - but I think it's a literally debatable point.
On this sub-forum people are talking information that is so often wrong it's gobsmacking. I can even read individual participant's posts and immediately recognise where their aero misapprehensions have come from - because those misapprehensions are here and nowhere else. (In other words, this sub forum has developed a whole bunch of uniquely wrong 'understandings' of car aero.)
I know some people who have posted here know far better, but either they can't be bothered posting corrections (especially when they'll be met with a wall of pseudo-tech BS from someone who apparently believes they're always right) or the peer pressure 'to be nice' keeps them quiet. (Obviously that's not me!)
Unfortunately I cannot see any change unless people start to do some decent on-road testing (throttle-stop, tufting, pressure measurement), read current aero textbooks or step out of the 'cult' (as someone described Ecomodder to me) frame of reference.
None of these actions takes much money, but they all require an effort.