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freebeard · 05-04-2022, 08:39 PM

I failed to get an angle that shows this off, but this Vette had skegs or difusser fences that flaired from inside the wheel to flush with it's outer face.

One could do similar behind the front wheels and then fill in with two or three more pair. It would need A-B testing.

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freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,941 Thanks: 8,217 Thanked 8,988 Times in 7,425 Posts	I failed to get an angle that shows this off, but this Vette had skegs or difusser fences that flaired from inside the wheel to flush with it's outer face. One could do similar behind the front wheels and then fill in with two or three more pair. It would need A-B testing. __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ________________ . .Because much of what is in the published literature is nonsense, and much of what isn’t nonsense is not in the scientific literature. -- Sabine Hossenfelder