Has anyone here tried installing cooling ducts to your brakes on your ITR? If so, did you cut various body parts to do so? What size? Where did you run it? Photos would be particularly helpful.

Yes, I tried doing a "search", but you know how well that works...

 

There is some info here, under mods: http://www.sandmracing.com/

 

Thanks. Looks good.

Is it a straight shot past the radiator going back, or did you have to cut metal above the core support as well?

 

I should have pix of my 'cure' for c00ler brakes

 

IM D for info, as those are his pics.

 

just a FYI, havn't had this on the track yet, as i am again a poor poor college student in need of rotors, pads and money for events (hint hint).... but i'm confident this should solve much of the brake heating with our front stoppies.

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Ds look nice, ive seen em on his car around. Looks like it should have been there from the factory.

 

how is that working for you?? i might try that but i have the ice box in the pass corner....but that looks really promising....

 

I am in the middle of installing mine, Sorry no pics. But I have two NACA ducts in the opening of the fascia were the factory fog lamps would fit. Because I removed the a/c there is room to run the hose/ducting stright back in between the radiator and the core support, then running along the z-10 radius rods towards the front brakes. Hopefully I'll have something finished before the Expo.

Mattj


[Modified by Dropspeed, 9:40 AM 4/14/2002]

 

NACA not NASA

 

Has anyone built a more permanent system than the flimsy tubing?

Not trying to flame on everyones set up, just curious...

 

Im not sure you would really want to. Most race cars(excluding CART, F1 etc) use flexible hose like the stuff shown in most of the pix. I guess if you were really ambitious, you could make some nice CF ducts, but that would be a pain in the *** for not really any gains. Just my $.02


[Modified by nfn15037, 11:41 PM 4/13/2002]

 

 

Its top secret prototype NASA ducting............OK I ment NACA.

Mattj

 

It's not rocket science.

 

I was thinking along the lines of Aluminum ducts that can be mounted with a few screws.
I don't know about CF that's alot harder to do, but would look cool.

 

Yeah, get some sheet aluminum and a pop-riviter and go to town. It would definately be much sturdier.