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Old 04-08-2022, 12:12 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Anyone have any work arounds with making front license plates more aerodynamic? Special frames?

Best I could do was hammer and bend the corners around the frame slightly curved towards the car

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Use it as a grille block.
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Use it as a grille block.
my car already has an active grill block/shutters
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Besides using the plate as a grille block, other approach that I have seen was using a sticker as a regular plate.
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front plate

https://ecomodder.com/forum/member-a...ing-follow.jpgThere's a high probability that the plate is embedded within a Lanchester/ Prandtl surface if discontinuity region, and it's presence doesn't make any meaningful difference.
Images of smoke-flow visualization during wind tunnel testing are the only way to 'see' this phenomena.

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