Originally Posted by
RChung
1) And, in a deeper sense, as far as wind tunnels go they may as well be vaporware to me and to most of us -- the nearest wind tunnel is far away and way out of my price range.
Not directed at you specifically, but there may be a bit of false economy in this thinking for a fair number of people, both in time and in dollars. It's pretty easy to drop $1000-$1500 in equipment upgrades or hours field testing and come away with a lot less than dropping $1500 and a couple of days to go to a tunnel. Granted it
will be out of some people's time/dollar budget, and gains will vary according to who's running the show, but my experience has been on a $/w basis, it's a very competitive investment.
And there's still a McGyver creativity factor if you go off piste and start fabbing up your own bits. Trust me, there's nothing quite spending hours cutting, grinding, and drilling only to find you went completely backwards on that base bar.