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Old 02-27-2009, 08:13 PM   #181 (permalink)
Formula413
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Originally Posted by NiHaoMike View Post
...you pay close attention to aerodynamics on every car you see...

Just today on campus, I saw a car drive by with a radiator block installed. It was a fairly small car (2 door) and the radiator block appeared to be made of flexible plastic. It was going a little too fast for me to read the model, however. I wonder if it belongs to a hypermiler...
I think radiator blocks have a pretty wide following beyond the ecomodding community. Some people probably steal the idea from big rigs and dump trucks, for example. It certainly does help FE though.

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