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too right it would be, :-) i take some if you do make them. searched for ages for something like it. would not ba as simple as those i think... well on a R32 anyway and being able to split them rather then removing the drive shaft

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it seems like it only cools the very centre of the disc... wouldn't it be better to have a duct cool the outer edge of the disc where the pads make contact or even ducting cool air into the the cooling vanes in the centre of the rotor? I reckon make somthing like a caliper that goes over both sides and the top of the rotor then duct cool air from the front bar into that... just my thoughts.

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they do spray water onto the brakes of a DTM car but only when they are coming into pitlane as stopping with red hot brakes causes fade when they return to the track or so the article i found said. Also those truck they race pump water onto the brakes all the time.

I have also found some 3" 12 volt fans that are used in nascar to cool brakes down. They are place in the brake ducting and will move 145CFM i think that would help.

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used to run water cooling in f1 as well as a way to beat minimum weights....they'd get weighed with 30kg of water on board then dump it on the brakes nice and early, then run around 30kg lighter :thumbsup: I still think there is a god chance of cracking them though

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