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Old 11-18-2008, 10:36 AM   #62 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by lunarhighway View Post
one thing to keep in mind is that on the lancer the vg's are there to direct the air towards the rear spoiler. VG's add drag to do this so while they may succeed in makeing the airflow follow too steep cuve the energy it takes to do this might offset any gains made by the smaller wake...
This is a commonly stated misconception about Mitsubishi's intentions.
http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/cor...004/16E_03.pdf
If you don't want to read it all, they were able to reduce Cd by 0.006 with the addition of the VG's.
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