Three parts to help you install brake ducts
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- Flatirons Tuning Tech Tip - 3 parts to help you install brake ducts
We have been working on installing brake ducts on a few of our track and personal cars, and it is never as easy or straight-forward as we would like. But now we have found 3 really helpful pieces that make installing brake ducts much easier! - Auta a dopravní prostředky
thannks for the video, really informative. Just discovered this channel by chance, really interesting!
Thanks!
wow great tip, definitely going to do this once race season hits
Excellent, and glad we could help!
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Brilliant! Now to figure out how to keep it clean for the rally car...
rally cars with gravel set up normally don't have brake ducts. the tubing will brake by rocks. plus you never brake that hard on loose surface.
This would be perfect for track days since I have fog light covers on my car.
Excited that I found your channel. Definitely curious how long you’ve been uploading on CZcams so I’ll need to look at your channel and scour all of the videos that interest me. But just wanted to say you have a really cool channel i used to work in a European performance shop a lot of lotuses, Alpena BMWs, AMG black edition‘s, GT 2 or 3’s and now I’ve been a flat rate technician coming up on seven years (at a dealership 70% through master tech certification under Honda as a manufacture) and I love some good performance based modifications with solid execution and well-rounded explanations and shown knowledge.
Very cool, and glad that you found the Channel! We have been putting up content for a while now, and make sure you check out our Podcast (available here and on iTunes and Spotify as well).
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This is awesome
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What kind of airflow did you measure when testing that set-up? Thanks.
I was going to 3D print something like those Z06 ducts. Good to know that they are available.
Have you got any problem driving the car without heat shields? I actually got what looks like heat damage on CV joint and tie rod end boots, was going to add some shielding to the boots to fix that...
Thanks for your question! No issues with lack of dust shields so far, but if you are getting the rotors really hot, then sure that is something to keep an eye on.
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Anyone knows the part number for those Z06 air duct pieces?
you can run the hose from bumper to the caliper, plastic channel is not necessary. a longer hope provide better flexibility so it won't brake as often.
I like the Z06 ducts but we are having clearance issues fitting them under 15in team dynamics rally wheels. Way too tight of a fit. Gonna have to fab something up with less of an angle to clear our wheels.
Sorry to hear that Robert. Yep, there isn't a lot of real estate under those 15" wheels. What diameter hose are you running? It might help to try something like a 2" hose maybe? If you are going to the caliper, you may have to go smaller than that to get enough room to work.
Good luck with the project and thanks for watching!
Could you use something like this on a Toyota Sienna? They are notorious for warped rotors. Nothing seems to help.
Thanks for your question. In theory, yes you could do something like this. One of the issues with a Sienna is you would need to find a place up front to duct the air from.
We actually had a Sienna for a number of years, and did experience the warped rotor issue... I'd recommend starting by using the transmission to down-shift in hills and mountains to see if that helps. It did for us.
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Where and how did I can buy this plastic ducts ?
Do you know if those lambert ducts will fit on an 08 narrow body wrx? Or anything that will?
Not at this time. All of the WRX's from 08-14 have a dust shield that is captured between the hub and the knuckle. So there isn't anything for the ducts to attach to unfortunately.
If you need ducting, the WiseFab knuckles, or STI knuckles would offer the best solution.
Hope that helps, and thanks for watching!
Did you guys ever source covers for the '08-'14 kit?
Thanks for your question. Because the dust shield on the 8-14 WRX is sandwiched between the bearing and the knuckle, there is almost no way to get something else installed there instead. We ended up cutting up the stock dust shield and riveting on a round fitting that let us attach a brake hose to the knuckle.
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do you have a link to the site for the fog light and dust shield brackets?
Thanks for your question. Unfortunately Lambert is not making them any longer, so we don't currently have good options for either.
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Have you guys at flatiron installed any of this setup on the b8.5 audi s4?
Thanks for your question. We have not. I think that it could be done, but we just don't play with many S4's :-)
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Do you happne to have the part number for the Z06 brake duct ? or maybe a year?
I had to collapse my 3" hose to the same shape, but I would like to do it this way.
Thanks for your question Cesar. We actually have them on our web-site here:
www.flatironstuning.com/p-3377-oem-corvette-c6-z06-brake-ducts.aspx
Part numbers are in our listing, but we have them in stock too :-)
FlatironsTuning thanks
Updated link is here: www.flatironstuning.com/chevrolet-oem-brake-ducts-corvette-c6-z06
What did you use to secure the duct to the front end of the duct to the fog light opening? I see a round piece with 4 bolts through that, have a part number?
Thanks for your question. That part is not longer made unfortunately. It was just a simple 3" pipe with the flat base to attach to the foglight. We have found some similar pieces through Aircraft Spruce, but I can't remember exactly what they were called off the top of my head.
Take a look at their catalog, and I'd bet you can find something.
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Are these brake ducts available for a GC impreza? Thanks for your time.
Thanks for your question. The Corvette ducts will be helpful, but they will require some customization. The ducts that bolt to the knuckle may not be the same for the GC. We'll have to see what we can figure out there. They attach with the same bolts as the backing plate, and they may well be different...
FlatironsTuning ok great thanks for letting me know this info.
Will Do.
Can anyone help out with the part number for the GM duct?
We actually sell just the ducts. Here is a link to them on our site: www.flatironstuning.com/p-3377-oem-corvette-c6-z06-brake-ducts.aspx
The part numbers are listed there as well.
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Will these work on 2016 wrx/sti?
Thanks for your question. Yes, you should be able to get them to work. Just keep in mind that there is some custom fab work involved based on how you route the ducting.
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How did you attach the hose to the Z06 ducts, there's not much of nipple to clamp to.
I used a self-tapping screw through the fender to attach them.
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@@FlatironsTuning no I'm was referring to how you got the hose to attach to the duct itself, not how you attached the duct to the fender well area. Did you use a worm gear clamp?
This ducts possible install on GRB?
We have installed ducts on our 2014 WRX, and a 2011 STI. You have to customize the fitting on either one, similar to this, and the WRX does not have a good solution to run the duct to the knuckle due to the dust shield being sandwiched between the hub and knuckle. But yes, the Z06 ducts are a good starting point.
Thanks for the info. I will try to install for summer season. And i think get spliced dust shield and brake duct like on this picture - a.d-cd.net/dcad8f6s-960.jpg
So Shagy is a mechanic now?
Lol. There is a guy that looks like Lex Luther and he has a CZcams car channel so I used the same joke. So Lex Luther stopped fighting superman and is rebuilding engines now?
For most of us we would only need the duct, that should direct enough cooling for street cars
Thanks for the comment. Yes, for a street car, most likely you would never need any ducting.
The repetitive corners of a circuit are what can really put the heat into your braking system that requires this kind of cooling.
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those brake duct hose costs 90$