How hard it this to take off? I was looking at it, and it seems you need to take brake calliper and rotor off, just to get the spash shield off.

There has got to be a better way.

 

you mean the dust shield? you could just cut it with some tin snips.

 

And the hub. (If you want to remove it in one peice.)

 

you call it dust shield but honda calles is spash shield, or spash guard. But ya that thing.

 

Why do you want them off??

I'd call it a splash shield 'cause when they rotted off ('82 Rabbit) the brakes kept getting wet from puddles & they took lots of extra distance to dry off each time I had to stop. It was so obnoxious that I had to put new ones on even though on that car I had to replace the wheel bearings to do it.

 

Because my brakes are getting way to hot out on track. I have had 1 set of brake pads get so hot that they turned brittle and chunks of the pad just came off while driving! This left me with about 1/2 the normal brake size, and stoping took longer than it should. (not fun when your going 100+ mph on track). I have some better "racing" pades on now, but they still get way too hot, after 20min out on track I have white smoke coming off the pades.

I just need more air to get in there to cool things down faster. At least I have yet to catch my pads on fire, which I have seen others do on track days. Fire coming out of the roters is fun to watch though!!




[Modified by 57STS, 1:27 PM 3/17/2003]

 

Why not rig up some sort of vent?

Maybe dryer hose from insde the front grill, to each wheel well and cut a hole in the liner for the hose, that'd force cold air in to the wheel well.

 

Yes, I'm doing that this weekend... but having the air hit the rotor/calaper is better than the air hitting the splash guard, thus I want to take it off. I'm going to just cut it off, taking if off without cutting just seems a big pain in the ***.

 

As long as you are aware that the rotor will get wet and increase your stopping distance, you should be fine.

With respect to ducting the brakes, I had very good success using 1" diameter hose. In my CRX si, I had a lot of trouble with ground clearance and with the tire rubbing the hose. The 3 or 4 of the one inch hoses per side could be routed around the front cross member and inside the wheel well.

 

You have to take the rotor off to get access to the dust shield. Theres a seried of 10mm bolts holding it to the hub, think theres like 3, and you could use a dremel to cut the metal so that it will come off, otherwise you'll have to take the hub off completely to get it off.