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bwilson4web · 04-13-2009, 10:56 AM

Hi,

Thanks to Julian Edgar's article "Blowing the Vortex, Part 4", I decided to try tuff testing with my NHW11 (2003 Prius

I only tuffed the center of the rear window and sure enough:

I found flow separation similar to what Julian found but in the NHW11.

Bob Wilson

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