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Originally Posted by Stan Weiss
Tom, Thanks.
As an aside. I see people try to save weight by not running inter front fender wells. How much of a negative effect would this have?
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Originally Posted by mike leech
I know for a fact that removing the factory wheel wells from a early camaro/firebird will cause a low 12 car to lose 2 mph. et was about the same, a touch slower. air hitting the fire wall is a bad deal and care should be taken to limit introduction as well as relieving any built up pressure under the hood. these would have an effect on how the car moves through the air as well
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Real world info (from Mike) that mirrors the testing we did in the wind tunnel. Only issue is that you need SOME leakage airflow to carry away the heat from the engine compartment on a production vehicle or the components will get too hot to survive for 150.000 miles. Removing the inner fender wells completely normally will allow more air to be in the compartment with the air now trying to figure out how to get out vs giving it a controlled escape path.
Belly Pans, sealed fender wells, etc can cause the underhood temps to skyrocket.
Tom V.
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Last edited by Tom Vaught; 02-23-2014 at 02:52 PM.
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