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Originally Posted by orange4boy
Probably obvious to everyone here but just a reminder of what a huge influence wheels and their wheel wells have on drag. Everyone looks at the profile but the wheels represent a huge portion of drag. You can have a great profile but if the wheels are badly dealt with, a crap CD.
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Yes, absolutely.
But don't forget to ask Aerohead about his opinion that rotating wheels and moving floors in wind tunnels make no difference to measured drag values...
Another of his theories in conflict with all current aero tech literature.