He probably has a sliver in the hat area for the air to squeak through like I did before I revised my setup. What would be more effective here would be to place the duct an inch or 2 away from the hat in hopes that Bernoulli's principle works with you to blow more air toward the hat than the duct itself can carry. Without a shroud, the effectiveness will be pretty limited anyway. I tried running street pads with proper ducting on the track and it was a mess, better off with good pads and zero ducting.
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He probably has a sliver in the hat area for the air to squeak through like I did before I revised my setup. What would be more effective here would be to place the duct an inch or 2 away from the hat in hopes that Bernoulli's principle works with you to blow more air toward the hat than the duct itself can carry. Without a shroud, the effectiveness will be pretty limited anyway. I tried running street pads with proper ducting on the track and it was a mess, better off with good pads and zero ducting.
i agree it needs to be done correctly. So far from what i see just the back side of the rotor will be cooled down and frankly its concerning because half of the rotor will be cooled and the other half will get nothing I'm not even sure the metal used can tolerate temperatures differences like that.
Yup why I made the comment about uneven pad wear.
Exactly, the correct distance away it uses that effect.
Our C5Z06s have it from the factory, front and back..👍
Front is directly into the Rotor, rear comes in above the Caliper.
Then again with that being said, Z06 is a 50/50 car whereas the Gbody is probably more 70/30 with the weight on the nose so cooling the front brakes would be beneficial if you were hardcore on the track with it. Rear would have very little effect.
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This build was purely a fabrication practice, I think it looks super cool to see orange ducting going to big brakes.
I don’t race at all or plan too, the the ducting is probably doing more harm then benefit for my application. I know warm pads have more stopping power then cold ones.
And the ducting should probably be pointing towards the hat instead of rotor 🤷🏻♂️ The more you know.
I don’t race at all or plan too, the the ducting is probably doing more harm then benefit for my application. I know warm pads have more stopping power then cold ones.
And the ducting should probably be pointing towards the hat instead of rotor 🤷🏻♂️ The more you know.
In a roundabout way, your shot at brake ducting paid for some good info on brake ducting that people like me can now leech off of. lol
If you want to do it, need to figure out where you want to duct air in from the direct front of the car and it needs to be dumping directly into the center of the Rotor hat with the wheels straight. There's the objective.
that's not his only issue on hand, that is just the beginning of his journey of spending money and figuring out what brake compound he needs. if he is going to just drive around town licking a ice cream cone the variables are always different and cooler than track usage you already know your going to be in volcano mode 
Hang one of these in fresh, clean air for your source.
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Just make sure whatever pad you uses is in its happy temperature range.
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Just make sure whatever pad you uses is in its happy temperature range.
Looks like an excellent fabrication effort. It looks great. Just remember it works better than nothing. Many of us don't have the deep pockets to do the R&D to quantify how much these improvements make.
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