Custom Brake Ducting.
Has anyone ever done their own custom brake ducting? I've done my own custom air intake ducting, and am thinking of doing the same for my brakes. Anyone else thinking of doing this?
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I am also planning on doing this!
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Yep, I fabbed brake ducts for my WRX, but kind of doubt that the BRZ will need them unless it gets a lot faster or a lot heavier.
On the WRX I used molded ducts from racer parts wholesale in the fog light openings and 3" ducting from aircraft spruce with some nifty parts for RV waste drains to direct the air at the brakes. Worked great ;) |
I plan on doing this to my FR-S. I tried it on my Camaro I had but had clearance issues with 3" hose and the wide wheels - Camaro really didn't need it anyways brakes were fine and I could go full stop with them no problem (other than it could actually STOP way to fast, and you literally could come to a stop at a turn if not paying attention!) For the FR-S I will have block-off plates for the ducting as well, for the majority of time when not used on track. FR-S definitely feels like it needs more brakes on track to me - mainly a better pad compound (Hawk HP+ would be my) with cooling would give me the confidence to brake harder on track and not worry about any fading issues.
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Phil from Element Tuning has run his FR-S In Time Attack events with much larger wheels and had no brake issues. Plenty of others have also run the cars on the track and I haven't read about any brake issues.
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Although they may not be as effective, deflectors are an easy mod. But im unsure of fitments. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI...ht_1102wt_1257
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I spoke with derek at rexpeed and he said they are working on some cf ducts.
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As I mentioned in my first post as well, I would make bumper blockoff plates for the ducting system for use on the street... |
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