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Old 12-19-2006, 05:10 AM
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brake cooling thru turn signal hole

i'm working on the first steps of basically an all out road race car and want to know if anyone has pics of a setup where the front turn signals have been removed the back of the bumper cover has been removed to allow the installation of ductwork to allow cool air to reach the brakes. I'm sure it's been thought of and done....anyone got any results from it? Pics? I'm looking at trying to keep her partially legal, so if it comes down to it i'll install a flush mount motorcycle turn signal back in there a bit for the turn signals, but I'm gonna need to cool these brakes down. any other ideas?
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Here's the best I've found.....it shows the front buckets modified to obviously be an air intake. I'm looking for something similar, but also with pics of the wheel well area or from underneath on routing and mounting too....
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Go to the skulte web site. He has some rotor hats for mounting to the spindles which improves the efficiency (cooling effect). There are funnel like products available that fit in that hole fairly well and adapt to 3 inch hose shich seems to be the common size to use.
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how about the fog lights? or the air damn?
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how about the fog lights? or the air damn?
the fog light holes are going to be where she breathes from....the LSx is gonna need a lot of breathing room..... not sure about what you mean by getting cooling thru the air dam? do you mean the vents in front of the tires on the front spoiler? or do you mean from underneath at the air dam that blocks air into the radiator? if that's the case, good idea. I'll have to check to see how that's going to affect the cooling, but diverting air thru brake vents.....
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Another thing that I didn't go into depth with here is that I am going to be running a complete fiberglass front end, so the marker light holes are molded over, with a slight depression where they should be, so I'm def going to have to fab something up for all of this tubing to mount to on the bumper side.

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http://www.colemanracing.com/catalog...oducts_id=1817

Coleman Racing, Offset air duct, 9 1/2" x 5 2/8" Page 127 of the current catalog. They should fit the turn signal holes pretty good.

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Not a Camaro, but one of the ways I tried to do it

Brake duct pics

Don't try to mount the tube like I did, just weld a tube to the stock dust shield or buy the spindle mount ducts from Skulte.

The ducts that are screwed to the bumper are from ebay. That's the cheapest place I've found to order them. I believe it was $30/pair shipped.
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