Air dam and wheel skirt test results
Today, I went out driving with a friend to go and test my air dam and wheel skirts. We found a nice flat paved road in a rural area to do the testing.
Here are the conditions: 4/17/12 0.8 mile length (recorded on Scangauge) 66 degF temp (Weather Forecast & Reports - Long Range & Local | Wunderground : Weather Underground) 60 mph (in dash speedometer) 10 mph average windspeed (Weather Forecast & Reports - Long Range & Local | Wunderground : Weather Underground) ABACA test ----A=No air dam or wheel skirts (control) ----B=Air dam, no skirts ----C=skirts, no dam Here are the results: A Average - 36.31 mpg B Average - 37.78 mpg (4.04% improvement over control) C Average - 36.46 mpg (0.39% improvement over control) Here is the raw data (in order of the runs): _____Mileage (mpg)___ ----Down-----Back--- A---38.0------34.7--- A---36.4------34.5--- A---37.4------35.1--- B---38.4------36.5--- B---37.6------37.7--- B---37.6------37.0--- B---40.3------37.4--- A---38.0------36.5--- A---36.7------35.6--- C---36.7------35.8--- C---36.8------36.4--- C---37.5------36.1--- C---36.2------36.2--- A---36.9------35.7--- A---37.4------35.5--- If you want to see my air dam and wheel skirts view my build thread through the link in my signature. |
Why no D with both implemented? We are wondering?
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