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$198 for $5 worth of parts. :lol:

 

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Well.........if they made it a reasonable price like $29, they might sell alot.

I can run down to my local hardware store, pick up a pack of rivets for like 2 bucks, pack of zip ties for 2 bucks, some round plastic pieces for 2 bucks and vacuum cleaner extension hose for 20 bucks.

I guess it's expected for us Mini's owners to get gouged on after market stuff.

 

Before we beat up Sneed's too much... take a look at what this stuff costs:
Turner Motorsport | BMW Brakes

The high temp silicone hose itself is pretty pricey.... it's not vacuum cleaner hose... :lol:

I don't know where Chris is getting these brackets from, whether they're having them customer made or ???

And I can attest that the Sneed's cars GO... they were with me at VIR last Monday.

 

Oh, if only the phonetics of hose and hoes could translate to the internet. This would make for a funny joke.

 

Good hos ain't cheap.

 

Well, I just got back from running the BDM today...

And it's awesome as billed. I might do ducts someday (It wasn't very hot today so I don't know how good of a test it was, plus I was on crappy tires), but the brakes were just as good at the end of the session as they were at the beginning (actually better, since they were warmed up). Can't wait to run it again with R-comps in a few weeks. Rotors look great (Blackhawk can kill a set of rotors in a single day), so do the pads. Keeping my fingers crossed that it'll perform like this with better tires/suspension, but it was pretty damned good today.

 

Duct Tape

 

Can't wait to see your solution.

 

Just a little FYI, we have had great success with our brake ducts. Many customers have called me after installing them and using them at the track to tell me it was the first time they didn't go through a set of brakes in a day. So the kinks in it don't hurt, it's the only way to get it in without interfering with other parts.
Bottom line is these cars need more cooling at the track for the brakes. No matter how you choose to do it, it is a good idea. I never used any of the hoses running to the caliber or rotors because of the concern of getting it caught in the wheel or axle, which could end my race. I didn't want to see something so simple cause me a problem. So no matter what you do, just make sure your not going to have that problem, but either way it will all help.

 

A friend with a machine shop and I are going to be working on a set with the modified dust plates in few weeks when his water jet is free. I'll post pics and any info I can come up with going to try and get them routed up to the stock fogs.

 

^ agreed!

 

Pinpoint Disc Brake Cooling
If your interested;
Here is something we just started working on yesterday for one of our customers. We are making a custom aluminum shroud to get cool air down inside the brake disc. Part of the shroud actually forms somewhat of a seal inside the rotor hat and another disc is where the backing plate would be located. So when we are done the cool air will be fed directly to the cooling slots inside the disc.
The project started out with a paper mockup (yellow paper structure) along with a paper template of the various bolt locations for the shrouds. The black structure in the back is the original fiberglass shroud we are replacing, as it only directs cool air towards the the brake disc. In the next couple of days we should have more the aluminum shroud finished. I'll take some more pic's.

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