does anyone have experience making the front brake ducts functional and directing air to the calipers/rotors with a hose? front ducts are blocked off with sheet metal.
Engineers also pointed out opening up these ducts (and routing flow to brakes) INCREASES aero drag on the car ie slows the car down in high-speed regime. They advise not to do this. The brakes do just fine.
Brake testing during certification for our cars "excellent" rating (standard FGT Brembo's) had the car make a full ABS stop from 80% Vmax (164mph) with immediate accel to 60mph (3.3sec) and another full ABS stop, repeated nine more times without any cool down period in between accel/decel cycles. Last two stops of the 0-60-0 were the shortest of all stops.
Who honestly can say they really have any brake fade problems.....
Again, give Fred's team credit for building our car right.
Baronw, so do I understand correctly, the stock brakes stop fine, but the pad life is too short to last a day of aggressive track driving and the ducts aid in pad life.
Dave you are correct, this topic has been discussed at length in other threads...
I appreciate your technical comments as many others do as well. They are generally well founded. But to summarily dismiss the engineering data collected by the design team as they worked thru the aerodynamics of our cars as a "red herring" is a bit much.
As a technical appreciative individual, I hardly see why you dismiss the data collected. The data speaks for itself... (drag increases, whether you can "feel" it on the track or not).