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    Quote Originally Posted by inuvik View Post
    Me thinks it's probably far simpler to bolt a 2017 spoiler on the current gen Mirage.
    It isn't necessarily mutually exclusive. C has a straight cut spoiler more similar to 2017 and it seems to benefit from it too. There was an scientific paper published which found that VGs improve performance of spoilers. In that research they had tried 26 different combinations of spoiler/VG location and found one position which eliminated low pressure zone behind the car.

    We do not have access to wind tunnel, and can't change spoilers, so the hope is that existing spoiler works and installed vgs improve their performance by increasing speed of flow.
    Last edited by cyclopathic; 12-08-2015 at 09:09 AM.

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