I have heard of people fabricating tubes that run from empty fog light holes in the GT front bumpers to the brakes to cool them down. Does this actually work? Reason I ask is that I have no fog lights but dont want to spend the time on something that will end up being unnecessary and pointless...

 

it would to some extent. do you have braking problems ? like the brakes fading ?

i don't road race so i don't bother

 

Yes, they do it on road race cars. I thought I had a pic of a set up but cant find it.

 

i dont road race either and no braking problems but i do have a couple of holes in my bumper that i thought i could make some use out of...

 

if you don't road race or have braking probs, it's a pointless venture

 

Yeah, pointless unless you road race. And the reality is in most cars you don't want a super aggressive pad compound because it will eat your rotors up VERY quickly, and you could run pad compounds that operate very well at high temps without being overly abrasive on the rotors. Wilwood's newer BP-20 compound is very good at this, better than stock braking at lower speeds and temps, but when you flog the brakes and heat them up the pads operate best, producing beak braking torque in the 1,100-1,200* F range. You don't need brake cooling unless you're running an aggressive compound on a fast road race car, that's the only way you could get the brakes hot enough(unless you just use a crappy pad).

 

Ever since I cooked the front brakes on my car driving up and down a mountain, I've thought about doing the brake ducting through the fog light holes but I think we cooked them because I was running cheap Autozone pads and I've since decided against it....it would be kinda cool/racey though.

 

Good pads will work 100x better than cheap pads with ducting.

 

We put good pads on it after that, haven't had issues since.

 

Use those holes for TT's lol. That wouldn't be pointless at all.