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Old 08-29-2009, 10:13 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by brucepick View Post
My understanding is that brakes need cooling.

Even if you can get the moon caps to go on the back side of the wheel with the brake mechanism located there, that would leave the brake entirely encased. I think any serious stopping will cause overheating of the fluid (which causes brake fade), and also overheat the rotors, drums and calipers.

If anyone knows that I'm fulla beans on this, please speak up. But I do think brake cooling is important.
I'm with you. But if you wanted to put Moons or some other smoothie on the inside, you'd have to do some fabbing to make it go and still get the mounting done. If you're going to go to all that trouble, may as well work up some custom jobbies that cover unnecessary turbulators, while leaving plenty of flow around the brakes.
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