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MetroMPG 09-06-2007 12:36 PM

Rear wheel skirts
 
The rear wheel skirts "test" I ran on my car was kind of sloppy: first of all, it wasn't an A-B-A. The skirts were added on top of another significant variable (grille block), so they weren't tested independently. (That made it actually an A-B-BC test.)

Out of curiousity I'm going to re-run the test. I'll be using a different car this time as well: 2007 Toyota Corolla automatic.

Watch this space over the next week or so.

philmcneal 09-06-2007 02:21 PM

sweet metro, your test will let me know if its worth paying for that rear wheel skirts again, i've lost mine in on the highway! was so pissed! i SHOULD have velcoed them instead of using painter's tape X_X

MetroMPG 09-06-2007 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theclencher (Post 71121)
maybe I'll find that plain ol' driving technique and conditions are the dominant variable.

Oh, there's no doubt about that. The mods make small cumulative differences, but they're hard to detect without a SG/SM and repeated runs in consistent conditions.

2TonJellyBean 09-06-2007 04:55 PM

We should do a pool on the results! LOL

MetroMPG 09-06-2007 07:08 PM

Well, Clencher would probably win! Because the results are small.

trebuchet03 09-06-2007 07:17 PM

Do you have an image of the modification?

Results look promising :)

MetroMPG 09-06-2007 07:26 PM

No pics yet - I'll take some tomorrow.

MetroMPG 09-06-2007 07:29 PM

And slightly off topic... it sure looks like that Corolla can turn in some respectable FE! And it's an automatic!

2TonJellyBean 09-06-2007 07:47 PM

So in 10,000 miles @ $3/gallon, those skirts will save $3.43, and the spoiler add-on another $1.06.

MetroMPG 09-06-2007 07:53 PM

Good thing I made them from free cardboard then. I'm already in the black! (Not counting the little bit of duct tape...)


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