Miata Mailing List: December 1999, Message #241

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Don't they make that stuff in an aluminum type material so it would crush on one
end and hold its shape easily.  Still flexible yet not going to droop.

Keith Tanner wrote:

> >Has anyone attached hoses to the rear of the oval shaped brake ducts on the
> >R model air dam?  How did you handle the transition from the oval duct to
> >the round hose?
>
> I used flexible dryer ducting, and squashed it into an oval shape at one
> end.  Then a bit of duct tape to hold things in place.  I wasn't doing this
> for brake cooling (the hose snaked into the engine bay for cool air), but
> it's certainly easy enough to do.  Cheap, too.
>
> You've got big brakes.  That means more massive rotors and lighter
> calipers.  The rotors will take more heat than stock, the calipers less.
> I'd probably aim the hose at the caliper, but I don't know enough about
> brakes to be 100% sure this is the right place :)
>
> Keith

--
Larry Alster

1991 "White Knight" CSP #99
1992 "Silver Bullet" EM #17   BEGI Stage IV+
1992 "Honey Bee"


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