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Old 04-01-2008, 04:27 PM   #1 (permalink)
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an interesting point of view (wool tuft testing video)

for the title of this thread, I have been insiperd

so, I have testing the rear end (declidt) of my car using famous wool tufts.
After to have numbered (for to help the interpretation) the wool stufts, and photographed the details, I have fixed the camera in the seat passenger




By fabrio at 2008-04-01

and I have measured the position of extended wool stuft



two pics below, they evidence that the extended sool stuft is under the ipotetical line of roof-declidt.
You can see that the extended wool stuft is in turbolent area...the famous buble it describet in this topic : http://forum.ecomodder.com/showthread.php?t=1548


By fabrio at 2008-04-01



videos here:

[YOUTUBE]http://img532.imageshack.us/flvplayer.swf?f=Trunio3[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]http://img532.imageshack.us/flvplayer.swf?f=Tfinestrado7[/YOUTUBE]

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Old 04-01-2008, 04:53 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Looks pretty good. Hard to tell if #6 and #13 are not so great, or just an unlucky picture.
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yesss, you have reason....It is necessary a second camera
Not only: after the test, looking the videos, I have noticed that too much zoom: little repaid error whit good resolution

do you have idea for to insert the videos in this forum?
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Youtube works best from what I've seen.
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naaaa....

I have just uploaded the videos, but it is a code problem with this forum...
look, the end of my fist post. isnt' processed!
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Nice work I like the raised tuft method - I'll have to do that next time I do tufting
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thankyoi a lot.

beacose, the embedded code do not work in this forum, I put the links a the videos:

http://img532.imageshack.us/flvplayer.swf?f=Trunio3

http://img532.imageshack.us/flvplaye...f=Tfinestrado7

in the firs video, the car go to 140Km/hm and in the second video, I have.....surprise
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ok, thk to SVOboy, now the videos ares embedded on first post
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Very interesting.

I think this is the highest speed for tuft testing that I've seen.

The article(s) on this subject at autospeed.com were conducted at much lower speeds... 70-80 km/h.
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Just watched the videos... awesome

If you do this again, try only cracking the windows too... I found similar distrubrances with my windows barely open compared to fully opened...

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