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Hi All,
I have not read through this whole thread (god, and they call Chicago the windy city). But, I did have an 88 Tempo. It was dead solid at 80 mph on the highway, until the front rack mount holes got slotted. That car had allot of low-end torque. So, going around a specific curve, with a hill in it, I would goose it on the up-hill to pull the front end overly in, then let it jump out right into the center of the outgoing lane. I once had a cop follow me on a friday night when I did this. I guess he though I was drunk. But after he slid into the next lane over after following me in that curve, he figured I wasn't. And since this was all well below the speed limits on the roads, he just backed off and looked for real drunks. The bigger problem with that car was the rear lights would get put out by rain leaking in.
Years and years of this, along with a slide into a curb at 3 mph on glare ice, and rust ended up slotting the holes. The steering wheel would require about 3/8's of a turn before the car would start turning. If the car had any aero problems during the 2 years I drove it like this, I probably would not be typing this to you now.
As can be illustrated by the Prius handling cross-wind highway handling difficulties and resolutions, pinning something on aero-lift without careful evaluation of suspension and body stiffness evaluation can be wholely premature...
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