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13th February 2012, 15:30
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Originally Posted by vtectransplant
ITs a good idea IMO...just wondering which ducts you were going to use.....I want mine to look OE if poss, routing the ducting to the brakes.
Be a bit easier for me to route though.....something quite big missing from the engine bay in mine...lol
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This is something I have looked into
You can use the black ducts that go from the heater box to the blowers nearest the doors
I have mocked it up and they line up between the fog light holes and the brakes almost perfectly
Im in the same situation, dont want fogs but dont want gaping holes lol
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13th February 2012, 15:32
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vtectransplant
ITs a good idea IMO...just wondering which ducts you were going to use.....I want mine to look OE if poss, routing the ducting to the brakes.
Be a bit easier for me to route though.....something quite big missing from the engine bay in mine...lol
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this kind of thing
http://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/p7...duct_info.html
fitting them flush would be tricky as the bumper is curved
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13th February 2012, 15:33
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Originally Posted by s555dan
This is something I have looked into
You can use the black ducts that go from the heater box to the blowers nearest the doors
I have mocked it up and they line up between the fog light holes and the brakes almost perfectly
Im in the same situation, dont want fogs but dont want gaping holes lol
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maybe I should get some made?!?!
someone has got to be able to fabricate them?
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13th February 2012, 15:42
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looks like you can get fog blanks for £15 the pair from citroen
Either put an intake on them or fit a duct to them, I think the intake would look best!
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13th February 2012, 15:42
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Ive thought about brake ducting before after I removed my fogs.
Plenty of ideas here! The equivalent on eBay is cheaper mind 
I was just going for a rectangular funnel, to a short length of pipe and then use a hole saw the cut a circle in the arch liner then bond the pipe in place!
Project looks good! 
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13th February 2012, 15:54
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Got em, part # 7414 H7 "PLUGS SET - VT3 LIGHT AND NO FRONT FOG LIGHTS"
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13th February 2012, 18:47
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Originally Posted by MuZiZZle
looks like you can get fog blanks for £15 the pair from citroen
Either put an intake on them or fit a duct to them, I think the intake would look best! |
Woah these look good, they have that OEM look
£15 sounds good too! do you have a part number or what model they came from
edit saw ur post
Last edited by s555dan; 13th February 2012 at 18:50.
Reason: Sorry just saw your following post mate cheers
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14th February 2012, 13:42
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I just ordered my blanks, they were £32.23 the pair, I should be getting them next week as another part I ordered is on backorder from france.
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23rd February 2012, 12:03
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23rd February 2012, 12:08
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I found some Saxo specific brake ducts the other day when I was surfing!
159 Euros
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23rd February 2012, 12:29
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Do you think it's worth the money trying to cool brakes?
other than diverting some air into the arches, we'd need some sort of fabricated back plate to ram the air onto the brakes.
or buy these
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Allstar-Al...item2ebb3418a5
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23rd February 2012, 13:52
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Hmmm I don't think there is enough room in the arches to fit something like this and hose!
I was just thinking a hole in the arch liner at centre height of the caliper and in line with it, not sure how effective this would be though!
Could perhaps combine that with some sort of deflector like this!
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23rd February 2012, 15:09
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I have some flexi ducting I got with my BMC, I'll have a look tomorrow, might be able to route it down the front of the strut so the tyre doesn't clip it?
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23rd February 2012, 16:34
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Could make a few sets of your own for 159 euros!
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23rd February 2012, 16:45
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I just used some aluminium pipe stuff cable tied to the wishbones, seemed to do the trick for me - I could do more laps with Rallye steels on than with Fox multispokes, obviously the Rallye steels offer less cooling, so the cold air feeds must have done something.
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27th February 2012, 10:28
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Well the brake coolling is at the bottom of the list for now!
This weekend we flushed the PAS fluid, put some gearbox oil in, refitted the clasp to the rear nearside window, replaced the front nearside brakepipe, replaced the rear nearside brakepipe, managed to get both braided lines on the back and got the rear beam off!
WIN!
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27th February 2012, 10:45
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27th February 2012, 10:54
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ooh, so I may aswell just mount an intake trumpet onto one of my fog blanks and be done with it!
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6th March 2012, 09:13
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Okay, so last Friday I made some progress, a quick jaunt to B&Q for supplies and then I manhandled the beam into the back garden and rested it on a bucket as you do.
Time to get my fire on
^ you can see where the rubber is glowing orange, it's kind of dotty, once it's at this stage it was brittle and crumbled away with the prod of a screwdriver, revealing fresh rubber to be given the same treatment.
^ At some points the rubber caught fire, I just let it do its thang and saved gas, I grabbed the inner metal core of the bush with some mole grips and rotate/wiggled it/reheated until it pulled out
Leaving me with the following :
^ I tapped the plastic inner collar out with a flat head screwdriver, leaving it like this:
Now with the beam cooling down I went into the garage and got under the saxo, spot of kurust, nice cup of tea, then some black hammerite:
And as that dried I decided to tart the beam up a bit, not 100% though as I fancy rebuilding a nice beam to put on at some point, just some hammerite to keep the rot away.
So it's all been left drying for a week, I should be back over on Friday again to try and put the beam on, if my Baker BM Group A bushes arrive, oh and I'm off to Citroen to pick up 6 new washers for the bushes, and 4 smaller ones for under the nuts in the car, £32 
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6th March 2012, 09:34
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Never read this before, cars looking good lad!
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