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Old 01-12-2021, 07:53 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JulianEdgar View Post
Another good question.

Look, I think that such an approach would reduce drag, but it would depend on so many factors. I haven't done any personal testing of this, and the tech stuff I've seen has been fairly generic in this area.

Can't do throttle stop testing?
Aerohead built up the area around his cowl.
Perhaps he can share the results here. I can't recall what sort of results he got.
Aerohead, you out there ?

As for my personal testing, I do plan to do throttle stop testing for sure one of these days.
I have yet to try it.
I think it's a brilliant technique if I can make it work.

I asked about the Prius and Fit cowl pressure because I thought you might know that off hand.
I went looking for CFD images of a Prius to see if there was indeed less cowl pressure because there is less of a dramatic kink in angles at the cowl, but I'm not finding any at the moment.
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