Home made brake cooling ducts Options

[pharmd]

2002 Camaro SS. Does anyone have a good idea and source of parts with which to fabricate some brake cooling ducts? I am looking for stuff you could fabricate or pick up from places like Home depot or Lowes (if possible). Something that is functional and can be done cleanly and affordably. I planned on going thru the openings in the grill (drill out the foam) and run flex tubing from there to the wheel well (cut a hole in the liner) and shoot the air to the rotor. My 295's fill up the wheel well pretty well so positioning will be a little tricky.

Any thoughts?

[jensend]

2002 Camaro SS. Does anyone have a good idea and source of parts with which to fabricate some brake cooling ducts? I am looking for stuff you could fabricate or pick up from places like Home depot or Lowes (if possible). Something that is functional and can be done cleanly and affordably. I planned on going thru the openings in the grill (drill out the foam) and run flex tubing from there to the wheel well (cut a hole in the liner) and shoot the air to the rotor. My 295's fill up the wheel well pretty well so positioning will be a little tricky.

Any thoughts?

Laid up a sheet of 1/4" thick fiberglass roughly track width and mounted abs cooling ducts to it. This was secured with large pop rivets to the factory "air dam'. Ran the ducting to severn brake ducts mounted to the hub bolts. The fiberglass piece lowered the bottom of the air dam roughly 3/4" and has worked well for the last 6 years. sorry I don't have any pix at the moment.

[ReEntryRacer]

2002 Camaro SS. Does anyone have a good idea and source of parts with which to fabricate some brake cooling ducts? I am looking for stuff you could fabricate or pick up from places like Home depot or Lowes (if possible). Something that is functional and can be done cleanly and affordably. I planned on going thru the openings in the grill (drill out the foam) and run flex tubing from there to the wheel well (cut a hole in the liner) and shoot the air to the rotor. My 295's fill up the wheel well pretty well so positioning will be a little tricky.

Any thoughts?

Laid up a sheet of 1/4" thick fiberglass roughly track width and mounted abs cooling ducts to it. This was secured with large pop rivets to the factory "air dam'. Ran the ducting to severn brake ducts mounted to the hub bolts. The fiberglass piece lowered the bottom of the air dam roughly 3/4" and has worked well for the last 6 years. sorry I don't have any pix at the moment.

I did the same with 2024T3 aluminum sheet. Works great for years!

[pharmd]

I found some pool and spa hose at lowes (1 1/2" ID/ 1 3/4" OD)...I drilled a 1.75" hole in front air dam with a hole saw. I picked up a black PVC wye that was 2" into 2-1.5" openings. I zip tied the WYE to the front air dam, then connected the tubing to the 1.5" wye's. I measured the distance from the wye to the rotor. I routed the tubing strategically to avoid the tires at full lock, the suspension and steering shaft. I zip tied to strategic spots to make it solid. I know this won't cool as well as if I had a custom metal duct that seals to the rotor, but on the cheap this seemed to work well. The BOSS mustang at the last event had brake temps around 250 while mine were a tad under 200 after the same session.