GI : Brake cooling ducting

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2001 323 Astina SP20 (P5)
hey guys,

well this is very very early stages at the moment, but a mate and i have been thinking about designing a brake cooling ducting setup for the front brakes. we have been designing it to fit on just our cars and i thought there might be some interest from everyone in america for this.

i wont go too much into the detail yet, but if all goes according to plan, it would be a 15 minute install job and help with much needed front brake cooling. possible materials used would be fibreglass or CF (if demanded). will also include a "ram air" setup on the driver's side for the CAI air filter like the corksport one if requested....it will be much more than the corksport one too ;) ...however will be designed for the injen cai only as that's all we have available to us here on the land down under. oh and this will be designed to fit with the stock 16" p5 wheels as well as 7.5" wide wheels (16's, 17's or 18's)

so if you can, just let me know how interested you'd be in this and we'll get to work. dont expect anything in the next week or two - this wont be ready for a while and we need to nut out the prototyping first then conduct extensive testing before we release it to yawl.

so let us know. the more interest you give us, the quicker we'll work on this!
 
I didn't think the front brakes really needed cooling all that much.

Open air rims should make a difference. Sounds neat though.
 
our brakes stock are pretty good, but we'll all know how the brakes feel after a couple of 60mph-0 stops. cooler brakes mean better stopping for longer. since many people dont upgrade their brakes further than slotted rotors and better pads, i strongly beleive that brake cooling is require for longer spirited driving sessions and track visits

also, open rims dont make a huge amount of difference because they are not doing anything to help the air though. the design we are thinking of will force cool air on to the rear of the rotor which will be helped out of the wheel area by the car moving. the positive pressure created inside the wheel will be sucked out by the negative pressure on the outside of the wheel. well that's the theory anyway...
 
I always thought of trying something like this after seeing the stock one on the corvette. Any estimated price? I'm pretty interested
 
unfortunately i cant really estimate a price at this stage. too many unknowns.

we're just wanting to see what sort of interest there is. as i said, the more interest the more likely a full blown production will follow!
 
Count me in...Will of course be dependant on the final price, but I'm up for it. I know that I have had some pretty serious brake fade, and it's only been after a couple of hard braking sessions. I've upgrade the pads to some lucas ones, and they are heaps better then the OEM, but I'm going to put some slotted rotors on the front to help a bit and do the same on the back. Let me know of your progress.
 
cool. we'll start to have some prototype models done up early in the new year

at the moment, we have 3 stages in mind.

stage 1 - just the brake ducting

stage 2 - stage 1 + ram air setup for the injen cai

stage 3 - stage 2 + front undertray for extra front down force :D
 
actually really 4 stages.

stage 3 - stage 1 + front undertray for extra front down force

stage 4 - stage 2 + front undertray for extra front down force
 
development of this will begin as soon as mid january. i will keep everyone updated as soon as something interesting happens.
 
Hey, what if you just want an undertray and ram air? Gotta come up with a new kit now. Who cares if the brake cooling system is the overall purpose. Cool brakes are for pussies. I need ram air and an undertray.
 
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