Today I hit something with my 996 on the way back home .
To see if it caused any damage I checked the underbody when the 996 was back in the garage.
No damage there . Instead I found the very simple but effective Porsche brake cooling system .
It consists of a plastic scoop on either side that sits next to the splash guards and looks like it directs a serious amount of air flowing under the car to the front brakes. The plastic scoops are screwed to the plastic front underbody just like the splash guards.
I'm sure someone can adapt the system to the S2000. It would be cheap, effective and you wouldn't have to cut up your bumper.
Here are some pics of the underbody - still wet'n'dirty from terrible rain:
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Cool! This is exactly the kind of ducting solution I would like to have for the rear brakes, as well. I have the front ducts through the fascia, but the rears are still unventilated.

Great approach!

 

You got it, good observation! I made something like this for the CRX-Si out of the black plastic you get at the home & garden store for edging your lawn. I bent it and attached it with plastic tie wraps to a combo of the sway bar and suspension arm. I had removed the backing plates so the air it scooped up was directed to the inner part of the rotor. Simple is good, it weighs less!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gregstevens
[B]Cool!

 

I like it. Anyone know how to manufacture parts in plastic?

 

Attention S2000 entrepreneurs: when does this part go into production, and how much do we pay in a group buy?

Hey ultimate lurker, didn't you have a friend who was working on some type of alternative brake duct? What ever happened to that project? Was the design similar to this (if you can say)?

Thanks,

Ted

 

Anyone know how to manufacture parts in plastic?

Low-tech solution.
Get some cardboard and make lots of prototypes until you have a flat shape that you can bend into the result you want as a finished product.
Get some thin but rigid plastic, cut it to the same shape of your cardboard prototype, heat the plastic in the same place the cardboard was folded, fold the plastic at that one spot and hold it in that shape until it is cold. Do this step by step for each fold until you have the entire form created. I use plastic tie-wraps to hold the piece together and to attach it.

To heat a straight line I take a rod of steel and some insulated gloves, heat the rod and then lay it on the plastic, when the plastic gets hot and you bend it to shape you will have a perfect straight line.

 

Not a bad idea at all

Nachtmeister

could you send me some more pics, and we will see what we can come up with..

axcilla

 

I think this may be a project for Mingster and Import Development/MINUNI.

 

Have you guys considered if this is not done properly, there could heat variations between inner and outer side on the rotor causing nasty cracks?