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Originally Posted by serialk11r
I don't know about your brakes but I've never seen a non-ventilated rotor. As far as brake cooling goes a lot of cars are designed so that brake cooling air goes to the brakes from the inside and leaves through the outside of the wheel, but you could probably easily reverse this, as a partially covered wheel would act like a fan that pulls air through the hub.
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Some of the fastest cars I've ever seen use solid disk brakes with no venting whatsoever. They stop from 250mph or more just fine.
Once.
Then the car sits and cools down for a while before it makes another pass down the drag strip...
Air flowing around the body of the car should create a low pressure zone outside the wheels. I think forcing air to flow the opposite direction would be challenging (except maybe open-wheel cars).