Brake cooling done

[richy22]

Finally got around to finishing off my brake cooling ducts.

I NEVER use my fog lights..I can probably count on one hand how many times I have used them in the 6 years i've had the car!

So bought this lot ages ago

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=416963&highlight=brake

Consisted of 2 x fog light surrounds, 2 x ducts, 1 x Ripspeed ali ducting.

The ducts themselves were ports used for sub boxes and were ever so slightly smaller than the holes for the fog light . So i almost scrapped the ducts and bought some bigger ones then I thought I could bond them in somehow using filler.

First I put them in and held them in place with some uhu super glue stuff, as there was literally not much there to hold it in place to start wiht....used Davids P38 easy sand to fill in the back first and let that set the nflipped over and filled in the gaps in the front. Let it all dry and then started sanding them down smooth. Dont have any pics of that part but this is whats on the back...

Once I was happy I had got the front down as smooth as I could I bought some Satin Black spray paint and just sprayed them tonight.

The finished article.....

Came out quite well I thought! Now to fit them at the weekend and route the ducting and jobs a good un!

 

[Greeny.]

LOL, you always have your fog lights on when I see you handbraking around car parks...

They look really decent mate!!

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Good timing! I might be doing this to mine soon, the brakes got a tad hot on their first trackday so anything I can do to help is a plus, and I never use the fogs either

I'll keep an eye out for the next stage

 

[Greeny.]

I'll keep an eye out for the next stage

Probably get as far to the car as the de-cat rich?

 

[richy22]

Dont you mean dogging around PC world car park...??? (Then it turns out she was learning to drive!!)

Yeah came out better than I thought to be honest! Makes it more OEM looking in a way??

 

[richy22]

Probably get as far to the car as the de-cat rich?

Cheeky git! Hoping to get that fitted this week finally!

 

[Greeny.]

Cheeky git! Hoping to get that fitted this week finally!

Off subject, but your exhaust will be SO LOUD with this on I swear mate, will sound mint but will the other half slap you silly? Mine did haha

 

[richy22]

Off subject, but your exhaust will be SO LOUD with this on I swear mate, will sound mint but will the other half slap you silly? Mine did haha

Meh il buy her some ear plugs! Have them hanging from the rear view mirror..if its too loud il go back to having the cat on!

 

[Greeny.]

Meh il buy her some ear plugs! Have them hanging from the rear view mirror..if its too loud il go back to having the cat on!

I might have it off you if you do decide Also FMS will be able to fit it for you.

Ill stop spamming your thread with randomness now though.. back to the ducts!

 

[richy22]

Probably a really silly question but I dont see the need to lacquer these?? Just a few coats of satin black and leave it???

 

[st3ve]

No need to lacquer them, you don't want them to be shiny do you?

 

[richy22]

Thats what I thought and why I said "probably a silly question"...I have no clue/idea when it comes to spraying. Not overly impressed with the finsih of satin black soo far but Il add another coat tomorrow and it should look better .....

 

[kevin.s]

look good mate. i wouldnt bother with the laquer. just keep an eye on them and give them a fresh coat of satin every now and then.

 

[st3ve]

Wasn't having a go, sorry if it came across that way, have you thought about matt black?

 

[Dan29]

Look spot on them.

 

[powey]

thought about making the deflectors to couple with these?

 

[richy22]

Wasn't having a go, sorry if it came across that way, have you thought about matt black?

I wasn't having a go either...just read it back to myself!

 

[richy22]

thought about making the deflectors to couple with these?

Deflectors are next on the list..need a new drivers side arch liner as well come to think of it... I lost mine on the way to FCS

 

[theduck]

Liking them!

 

[richy22]

Look spot on them.

Liking them!

Cheers...I was impressed at my skills so far to be honest...just need to make sure they dont crack as when I fisrt did them I could crack them out of palce really easily...so I stripped it all back..sanded to give it something to key into and went from there. Might have to rethink what type of filler I use if thats the case

 

[powey]

Cheers...I was impressed at my skills so far to be honest...just need to make sure they dont crack as when I fisrt did them I could crack them out of palce really easily...so I stripped it all back..sanded to give it something to key into and went from there. Might have to rethink what type of filler I use if thats the case

Could always ghetto it and fix it together with zip ties, track look ftw

 

[richy22]

I love tie wraps!! Got a load holding the exhaust up actually!

 

[Gregg]

Look really good richy, might have to 'borrow' your idea! I've currently got the piping cable tied to the fogs surround but that looks a lot neater (and would hide the surface rust on the pipe wire!)

For deflectors i got some 150mm square 2mm thick aluminium sheet and hammered into shape

 

[richy22]

Feel free to copy! Il find the ducts for you tomorrow.. Believe u can get them on eBay

 

[richy22]

These are what they are gregg...

Im unsure of the size of mine as I havent got a tape measure here atm..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-Subwoofer-E...in_3?hash=item3a4f063c3c&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-Subwoofer-E...in_3?hash=item483554de0f&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Basically somthing like that. If you look at Dans you can see how big those ones are and these look a lot more OEM once they have been filled and sprayed

 

[f0xy]

nice work, look very good!

 

[richy22]

Bump!!

Fitted one today whilst doing an oil change..wil do the other when I do my front coilies next weekend.....

 

[Greeny.]

looks good mate, shame you cant make it Sunday but hope to cya soon! Trax will be a right laugh so hopefully we will see you there, remember you can ride with me!

 

[richy22]

They have cracked slightly you can see it on the 3rd pic down but thats easily fixed

 

[Greeny.]

TRAX