Who can loan me dust sheilds?

I am looking for dust shields for the front of a WRX, WRX TR, and 2.5 RS.
I will only need them for a few days at most.

Thanks.

 

damn, where have you been?

 

yes, I know, fell off the grid there for a bit.
But I am regrouping and getting the car back out.

 

I saw you drive past Fellinis on Howell Mill one day last week. The car looked super ricey all covered in stickers:keke:

 

lol, I am a ricer

 

What dust shields are you looking for? The ones that sit above the struts in the rear? Brake dust shields?

 

hmmmm...what do you need brake dust shields for, you wouldn't be making brake cooling ducts would you.....

 

I need front dust shields for WRX and RS.

The spilt beans:
I am going to be making a 1 size fits all (WRX STi and RS) brake duct kit.
Rev1 will have 2" cooling-adequate for 90% of the folks out there that do street / AX / track days and easy to fit on a 'street' car.
Rev2 will have 3" or dual 2" or 3" ducts on each side for serious time trial road race apps with hoses snaking all around the entire underside of the car. Think "snakes on a plane".


Donors will get cheap cooling kits. I know plenty of you have shields you can unbolt, bring them by and I'll give you a beer. Post up so I don't get 45 wrx dust shields and 45 folks expecting beers and cheep cooling kits.

 

I can't believe you haven't had any bites on this yet. SOunds like an awesome deal for some
WRX and RS owners.

 

Please design them correctly and cover the whole center of the rotor. The other ones that are out there aren't good enough.

Matt

 

Hmmm i dunno if i still got my brake shields....i'll look and bring em over

 

What do you mean?
My prototypes were made by JRD, modeled after the Panoz GT cars. The plate has an oval, %80 of which is over the "center" of the rotor, ei the air is pumped into the inside of of the rotor aka the vaned area. I have seen other designs that just pump at at the 'car side' surface of the rotor. I don't believe these would cool the wheel side surface of the rotor.

Is that what you mean or are you thinking it will be beneficial to have the duct cover the entire center of the rotor.... installation would require taking the axls out...
While this might increase air delivery to the vanes by minimizing blow by, it wouldn't eliminate blow by (unless the the duct 'doughnut' was very close to the rotor). Also, the center of the rotor is sucking in air.

Gimme ur thoughts... and ur dust shields.

 

The way all the brake ducts are that I have seen cover the entire center of the brake rotor, so that the air is pumped out through the vanes. My personal opinion is that if you only cover part of that area then you aren't being very effective in pumping the air out through the vanes.

Matt

Edit

For youre version II plates for the hardcore guys I assume, I don't think any of them are going to mind pulling the axles to install them. There is a serious lack of race quality parts available for the STI, everything that is available is a compromise.

 

Great point.

ver1 will be half eaten doughnut and ver2 full uneaten doughnut.

 

Thanks you rock. Let me know when they are done.

Matt