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Old 12-07-2011, 09:42 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Think of the great safety benefits for people following. They could see through you to the car ahead which would give them precious seconds reaction time in a panic stop.

Think of the utility of transporting long straight things like unicorn horns and the like. ( are they horns or corns?) Although that would negate some of the benefits.

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Old 12-08-2011, 10:06 AM   #32 (permalink)
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Pretty easy to try on a hatch back, block open the trunk a few inches and open the sunroof. The red on top of the roof would blow in and out the back

Or just cut a few holes on the firewall. The area right under the windshield is supposed to be a high pressure area, if you could duct that with some 4" PVC through the transmission hump to the back you would be set
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I was thinking about doing something like this on my vw kitcar. The car has nothing under the hood except the gas tank and I was thinking of sealing the whole front of the car so air moves around the car and not through it. This would not give anyplace for the hot air from radiator to go so I was thinking of venting the hot air into car during the winter and having the hot air flow between the floor and the bellypan the rest of the time.

The car was setup to have ducting running from the front of the car under where the radiator would be into the car for fresh cool air.
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Old 12-09-2011, 09:07 AM   #34 (permalink)
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Yeah,it's pretty whacky.GM actually released an artist's rendering of an COE 18-wheeler in the 1980s,which depicted an enormous hole between the driver's compartment and running gear below,with streamline sections supporting the upper structure.
That sounds like my red clay truck design, would you by any chance know where I can get a photo of that?
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