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Old 07-25-2021, 08:09 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary View Post
Now it sounds like you're saying boat-tailing only works if you have it built at an optimal angle... As if a sub-optimal angle wouldn't help. After all, the template is rubbish, so following it should either not help or just make aerodynamics worse.

Is that what you mean?
Are you satisfied with sub-optimal? Why? If it's easy enough--quite easy, in fact--to do a little testing and find out what the actual optimal angle and actual optimal shape for your car are, why on earth wouldn't you do that instead of just guessing?

I don't want to put words in Julian's mouth, but as far as I understand, that's what he's arguing. He's posted extensively on testing methods, click on his username which will take you to his page, and then for "other posts" and "threads started by."
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