re : rollbar = less wind

["Peter Hoare" <kingfrick@domain.elided>]

Try fitting a fine mesh to cover the inside of the hoop area and you will 
find almost zero wind buffeting.

Cheers

Peter Hoare
Nagoya, Japan


>This past weekend my wife and I attended a local auto-x in the Spider 
>(115).
>We had about 30 miles of travel in each direction at highway speeds. This 
>was
>the first real mileage put on the car after I installed the Autopower 
>street
>rollbar. We both noticed and commented that there seemed to be a lot less
>~buffeting~ from wind ... which normally requires that I strap my ball cap 
>on
>extra tight. I can't say that the "windy backwash" is totally eliminated 
>but
>it seems to be more than 50% better (I haven't done any wind tunnel 
>testing).
>It all seems a little weird that just a little bit exposed rollbar hoop 
>would
>make that much difference, but there is truly an improvement ... go figure.


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