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Arrvaxx 07-02-2018 03:28 PM

Brake cooling that is not Stillen?
 
Are their any brake cooling options that aren't Stillen these days? All I need are the parts that fit to the brakes. I don't need the ducts or tubes. I don't want to pay over $250 for for a couple of folded and cut pieces of sheet metal if I can avoid it.

Thanks.

Hotrodz 07-02-2018 04:40 PM

Plenty of folks have made their own.

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DarkJak 07-03-2018 11:50 AM

Nothing available for backing plates other than stillen (2"). A few options for the bumper mounts made by members or generic front mounts. Tubing and other pieces would be sourced separately.

Quicksilvers 07-03-2018 10:45 PM

Believe it or not the Stillen brake cooling kit is a very well constructed brake cooling kit that has good fitment and is worth the coin spent. You should just make you’re own brake cooling kit it is pretty easy.

Rusty 07-04-2018 10:41 AM

If making your own. Use the red high temp hose. It doesn't crush as easy. You can buy the flanges for the backing plates online, and mod the stock plates. For the inlet ducts. Lots of different styles online.

The Stillen kit uses a 2" red hose. Which is fine unless you are a heavy braker at a advanced level. Then you have to go to a 3" or 4" hose. Then the problem starts. Trying to route the hose around.

DarkJak 07-05-2018 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3769157)
If making your own. Use the red high temp hose. It doesn't crush as easy. You can buy the flanges for the backing plates online, and mod the stock plates. For the inlet ducts. Lots of different styles online.

The Stillen kit uses a 2" red hose. Which is fine unless you are a heavy braker at a advanced level. Then you have to go to a 3" or 4" hose. Then the problem starts. Trying to route the hose around.

Yup, the 2" was just barely able to squeeze in for routing, but I see 3" being needed pretty easily. And there's no way that would fit through the existing path for the 2"/

Hotrodz 07-05-2018 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by DarkJak (Post 3769349)
Yup, the 2" was just barely able to squeeze in for routing, but I see 3" being needed pretty easily. And there's no way that would fit through the existing path for the 2"/

I am gonna look at doing a 3" hose and after I got the hose was like oh chit that's probably not going to work but we will see. So far I have not had any reason to go bigger than the 2" with the bake fluid, brake pads, titanium backing plates, and rotors I'm using. My brake and rotor temps have not been much more than 400*.

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Rusty 07-05-2018 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Hotrodz (Post 3769355)
I am gonna look at doing a 3" hose and after I got the hose was like oh chit that's probably not going to work but we will see. So far I have not had any reason to go bigger than the 2" with the bake fluid, brake pads, titanium backing plates, and rotors I'm using. My brake and rotor temps have not been much more than 400*.

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Non-braker.:eek:

Hotrodz 07-05-2018 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3769360)
Non-braker.:eek:

LMAO, if you are on the brake you ain't going fast!!! Did read the back of my NASA AZ baseball cap...it reads "We don't lift".

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Tractionless 07-16-2018 11:00 AM

To forgo the routing issues why not use a bottom pickup rather than fascia?

Rusty 07-16-2018 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Tractionless (Post 3771829)
To forgo the routing issues why not use a bottom pickup rather than fascia?

Where would you put the intake at?

Elmo370z 07-26-2018 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Arrvaxx (Post 3768800)
Are their any brake cooling options that aren't Stillen these days? All I need are the parts that fit to the brakes. I don't need the ducts or tubes. I don't want to pay over $250 for for a couple of folded and cut pieces of sheet metal if I can avoid it.

Thanks.

Stillen actually do a great job of cooling. One day I noticed blood and feathers around the entrance of the ducting, I thought mmm...... I just smashed a bird going down the highway. Then a couple days later I was washing my car and noticed a a lump on the inside of my rim, it was the bird.


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