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[///M5 2,833]

Hopefully the coach goes bye bye. Kiss my ass chilly. Time for Webb.

[dem beats 1,223]

it's been dissapointing. I don't even watch football or care in general, but this blows.

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Chilli is a pussy and needs to get the boot.

[dem beats 1,223]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVndz0SzJaY

Love how the guy keeps taping his cat walking by.

that cat cracks me up.

[dem beats 1,223]

as for the golf ball thing... I get it, but if it did work, why wouldn't race teams use it?

[///M5 2,833]

Good point. F1 budgets would allow them to do a TON of research on optimizing it as well.

[xAndrew225x 8]

Go Saints!

[MKader17 332]

Wanting to sleep, turned into loads of house cleaning and yard work. Time to pack lunches, make dinner, give junior bath, more house chores, yadda. So awesome being a single father with two jobs no damn help at home.

At least you've got your kid!

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

Good point. F1 budgets would allow them to do a TON of research on optimizing it as well.

I remember seeing a vinyl wrap on a bus with this a while back. If it was that easy, we could get a vinyl cutter and start selling it.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

Wanting to sleep, turned into loads of house cleaning and yard work. Time to pack lunches, make dinner, give junior bath, more house chores, yadda. So awesome being a single father with two jobs no damn help at home.

At least you've got your kid!

Yes, and it was quite a difficult week leading into weekend. But he and I did have a few good moments this weekend.

[MKader17 332]

Youtube vid

This has been common knowledge for quite some time. I can understand why it has not been done on commuter cars as I don't think it would be too attractive and not many people would like it, but on semis, trains, and plains, this could save so much energy it's ridiculous. The ONLY negative I see is repairs. It would be almost impossible to match a curved surface without replacing an entire panel.

I would say, on a semi, train or airplane they probably replace the entire panel anyways because its cheaper to replace it then to keep the machine down for that long. I'm sure an engineer could come up with a easy way to manufacture dimples into it

[Duran 387]

[Duran 387]

Hay top

[The enD 467]

Gay top

Fixed

[The enD 467]

Youtube vid

This has been common knowledge for quite some time. I can understand why it has not been done on commuter cars as I don't think it would be too attractive and not many people would like it, but on semis, trains, and plains, this could save so much energy it's ridiculous. The ONLY negative I see is repairs. It would be almost impossible to match a curved surface without replacing an entire panel.

I would say, on a semi, train or airplane they probably replace the entire panel anyways because its cheaper to replace it then to keep the machine down for that long. I'm sure an engineer could come up with a easy way to manufacture dimples into it

That will give a whole new meaning to VW Golf.

But yeah, it's not that pretty. Maybe they can embed it using not so big, dimpled sheets. So when the surface gets damaged you won't be replacing that big of a piece. But then you would have a lot more connection points to the vehicle.

Oh, science.

[Duran 387]

Gay top

Fixed

[Julian 641]

[Godsmack 361]

Bills win two in a row!!!!!!!!!!!

Bout damn time.

J

[dem beats 1,223]

for super huge aplications the sheet metal could just be stamped durring processing to create the dimples. The other factos are maybe the dimples only provide aid at certain speeds. Perhaps after a certain point it's prohibitive thus race teams don't use it. I don't know.

One guess might be is that if it's making all of those voticies perhaps it's creating low pressure there and would then create lift. That would be awefull in any and all practicle aplications.

[Tirefryr 1,742]

Good point. F1 budgets would allow them to do a TON of research on optimizing it as well.

I don't think it would work for them. They need the air flowing over the car for down force. F1 is all about controlling down force. That's what gives them the control they have. If you're stalling the air, you are decreasing the down force which will help top speed, but when you go to take a turn at 150mph, you are dead meat.

[topgun 262]

for super huge aplications the sheet metal could just be stamped durring processing to create the dimples. The other factos are maybe the dimples only provide aid at certain speeds. Perhaps after a certain point it's prohibitive thus race teams don't use it. I don't know.

One guess might be is that if it's making all of those voticies perhaps it's creating low pressure there and would then create lift. That would be awefull in any and all practicle aplications.

I think one of the larger reasons is that it is ugly as hell and no one is going to pay extra to save just a little bit of fuel and have an uglier vehicle.

With the exception of truckers.

[dem beats 1,223]

for sure.

for consumer level it makes no sense. But why wouldn't trains use it if it worked. the cost of fabrication would be so minimal compaired to energy cost savings.

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[dem beats 1,223]

pour one for me too.

[j-roadtatts 1,129]

pour one for me too.

its been poured...