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Originally Posted by Focusedintntions
I don't see how this would be much more effective over the bending/cutting of the stock shields....
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I thought the same thing before i tried, but here is my thought.
Rotors are cooled by air entering at the center, and escaping thru the outside edge. There is ofcourse cooling from just passing thru the air, but that may be considered aux cooling.
Bending / cutting the plate to expose the back of the rotor more may increase air flow over the rotor and have some gains, but there is no direction to that new air, its not forced into the center hub of the rotor.
The new plate creates an actual duct that directs air that it catches directly to the center of the rotor.
Dont get me wrong, i had success with bent plates, or should i say that i never overheated my brake pads / rotors... but any amount of added brake cooling has got to be a good thing.
just my .02