denn454

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I am looking into doing something I haven't seen anyone else do yet, but I have one question first.

I have an LS, I want to find the black inserts from the LT with the foglights and fit them into my bumper. How are the black pieces secured to the bumper, and can I put them in my bumper?

My plan is to take a hose from the backside of where the foglights would go, and run that behind the wheels to help cool the front brakes. I've had some brake fade issues recently with some road racing and this would only help the problem.

bryce712

im not positive but i dont think you can swap those pieces

freakta

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im pretty sure they are held in place by brackets on the inside of the bumper cover. youd prob have to go to crate engine depot for those parts. and its not a bad idea

Dispute

If you have one of the bumpers where its all one piece youll have to cut your bumper but if you already have one with the inserts but just without the fog lights thenyou can just swap them out. So what kind of bumper do you have, can you post a pic?

BitchyTheDwarf

you'd have to chop up your stock bumper or trade it for an LT bumper to make those parts fit. LT grills just snap into place, but the plastic behind is molded to fit them.

pics are in his gallery. It's the single piece LS bumper

Dispute

oops I diddnt even think to look at his gallery.

dman090

or you could just mount them behind the lower grill, ive seen it done before, i think kkanowitz has it done

ownedintheface1

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I know this is an ancient thread, but i'm really curious to know if you got this working properly, looking at doing something similar on my SS.

freakta

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bring it back from the dead hahaah

Omiotek

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It can be made happen but if your not going to do the spindle ducting to fog light hole they are useless..... Unless you are racing there's no need for them. Even the guys that race on here have not needed them for a 15 20 minute session with good pads and rotors

Superbolt

good pads and rotors will take away the brake fade.

ownedintheface1

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Well, I decided to give it a shot. I'll be racing at Road America next weekend, so the extra brake cooling will definitely come in handy.

I just got some flexible ducting from Menards on the cheap and some hose clamps. Perhaps I should make a How-to while I'm doing this haha

Omiotek

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Unless your building ducting that sits behind the rotors ducts will be useless.

However as I stated and others have use good fluid and good pads and rotors and it will do more then ducting will..... I track at road America when I have free time and I have not needed brake ducts. I run stock Ferrodo pads with some carbotechs out back and Powell front floating rotors and stock rear rotors along with dot4 fluid. The key is to be smooth. if you are you won't boil your fluid or overheat your brakes

ownedintheface1

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A little confused by your statement. Of course you would run the ducting to the brake rotors, where else would you run it?

Omiotek

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so your going to fabricate a duct that attaces to the spindle that ducts air behind the rotor right?

If you look at a lot of oem cars they just have ducting going into the wheel well area and a lot of people confuse that for a brake duct.

ownedintheface1

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Well, I ran it to the actual brakes. Didn't turn out too great though, ended up being destroyed by the axles. FWD makes it much harder to do this, because the axles run right where you would want to put the ducts.