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To: (Bob) Zumbrunnen who wrote (1348)	2/11/1998 2:03:00 PM
From: shashyazhi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6464

Certainly it is known that waxing an economy test vehicle is worth something in miles per gallon. In the past, airplane racers used to wax their planes, but they don't do that as much anymore. Some of them actually sandpaper the wings and make them a little rough to trip the boundary layer of air and make it separate from the surface to reduce drag. That would not have impressed spectators at the California Speedway, though. Psychologically, each of us wants that bright * shiny * Geo Metro, even if it is to give away to some relative. If they really wanted to go all out for mileage, they could have removed the mirrors and the windshield wipers. They didn't, but the car had no license plates, for whatever that is worth in mileage. Running in the rain would have been dangerous, even at 40 mph, with those tires inflated to 50 psi. But high inflation pressures is a given in economy testing, just as is de-adjusting the drum brakes and retracting the front brake pads. Joe LaStella said that some economy runs even turned off the alternator, but that the BAT car did not do this.