I am looking at Bulletproof Automotive's brake ducts. I found a few posts from guys who ran tubing from these ducts to the brake rotor heat shield.

How has the tubing held up? Have you had to replace it often? How well has this system (duct to tubing to shield) worked for you?

Greg, I think that I read that you removed your rotor shield. Have you run into any problems with this?

Has anyone found a simpler way of cooling the brakes, without cutting on the car?

Thanks,
Tanq

 

I had King Motorsports do my ducts and they didn't actually remove the heatshield on the rotor. What they did was cut out a circular section of the the shield, weld on a round metal piece so that the ducts have something to attach to. Then fitted the ducts on to the round piece. The cool thing is that the air is blowing DIRECTLY on the surface of the rotor, not just on the heatshield.

I'm pretty sure that the Bulletproof pieces are just the ducts themselves, with no ducting to bring air where it needs to be. So you will need to run the ducting yourself.

I have had zero problems with mine. They did a fantastic job on mine. I'll try to take some pictures soon and post them...

 

I, too, have the King ducts.

You have to cut out the fake duct and then you have to cut the wheel well to run the tubing. Then, as Greg said, they cut the shield to direct air directly to the rotor.

Great workmanship!

 

I did my own ducts and I would guess you have seen the thread with pics.

The only difference I have with the other descriptions is the cutting of the backing plate to direct air to the face of the rotor. Actually nothing has to be cut to direct air to the eye of the rotor as there is already a vent in the plate (I would have guessed theirs are not cut but will wait for the pics). A mounting point for the tubing simply needs to be attached.

The duct has held up ok on mine for the first six months. One caution is that clearance is tight (at full turn) so larger than stock tires might be close enough to require special attention.

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