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Cut wings / cut fenders on a 5th gen

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Post by wurlycorner » Sun Jun 24, 2018 12:16 pm

Yep, front of the door on a lude is not gonna be good aerodynamically...

4thgenphil has cut and flared the front wings on his 4g (and yes, it made me :cry: :lol: )

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Post by 4thgenphil » Sun Jun 24, 2018 12:43 pm

How about the pressure build up under the front wings, especially if you're ducting more air onto the brakes
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Post by NafemanNathan » Sun Jun 24, 2018 12:56 pm

4thgenphil wrote:How about the pressure build up under the front wings, especially if you're ducting more air onto the brakes
More speed holes required :lol: ;)

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Post by mercutio » Wed Jun 27, 2018 7:09 pm

i suppose it would have to actually be moving though Phil
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Post by louckie » Mon Jul 02, 2018 2:04 pm

To be fair wings are still un-cut currently there’s a list as long as your arm for me to do before I could even contemplate it now. Tracks days are starting to take there toll on the old girl :lol:

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Post by firstlude » Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:47 pm

More speed holes required :lol: ;)

dont most ludes have lots of speed holes :) no sorry my mistake it rust developed speed holes :lol:
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