03-04-2009, 11:52 PM
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I know I'm coming in late here, A penny for everyone's thoughts on a full front wheel/tire cover. Kind of like a motorcycle fender that would hug the tire closely, Be bolted/welded to the strut body. An example would be like a rear fender on a full dresser bike but it would also have full sides....??
You could cover probably 7/8 of the tire....
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03-05-2009, 12:23 AM
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I know I'm coming in late here, A penny for everyone's thoughts on a full front wheel/tire cover. Kind of like a motorcycle fender that would hug the tire closely, Be bolted/welded to the strut body. An example would be like a rear fender on a full dresser bike but it would also have full sides....??
You could cover probably 7/8 of the tire....
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03-05-2009, 02:23 AM
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I did that on the Car-Cycle to avoid the need for inner fender wells. You still have the problem of some gaps to accommodate steering and suspension motion.
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03-09-2009, 07:36 PM
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I believe Ford also did an inner wheel pant, plus the flexible mebrane fender skirt on the Probe V concept.
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06-07-2009, 01:08 PM
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The ASK 21 sailplane has a max speed (where this tape would have most effect) of 175mph (if you can find minimums, that'd be great) and is a streamlined body to begin with. Maybe the lower pressure offsets the velocity discrepancy - I'll have to do a quick calc a bit later 
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I don't know if it's what you meant by minimum, Trebuchet03, but the Wiki lists the "nominal" stall speed as a little over 40 mph.
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05-06-2012, 02:21 PM
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nit picking, in the video test of the skirts you should not have placed tuffs on the skirts.
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05-06-2012, 03:30 PM
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Huh? Why not, and how else are you going to "see" the air flow?
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05-07-2012, 01:01 PM
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I would see these as needing three separate tests
Airflow without skirt – original tuffs
Airflow with skirt – original tuffs
Airflow over skirt – additional tuffs
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09-27-2012, 04:53 AM
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lol, while cheking the pictures, I noticed that there was two block heater plug! Some people in the streets might find it weird hehe...
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09-27-2012, 10:51 AM
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Ha - yes, 2 plugs. I normally just use the more powerful one. 
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I would see these as needing three separate tests
Airflow without skirt – original tuffs
Airflow with skirt – original tuffs
Airflow over skirt – additional tuffs
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Um... that's what I did.
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