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Old 03-17-2010, 06:56 PM
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Who is running these in place of the fog lights? Which ones are you using? post your pics
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I have a pair of AIR cooling ducts installed. I used the foglight housing for mounting and fabricated spacers for the duct. The hoses run over the tops of my oil coolers. I'm planning to rebuild these ducts and make a few modifications. I would like to fasten the duct with concealed fasteners so you don't see the screw head as you do now and also make new spacers so the duct fits deeper into the bumper.
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No hoses yet?
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i actually run my cooling ducts at the bottom of the front bumper cover and use the fog light recesses for oil coolers
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Oh yea, I've been running this setup the past 3 years. Duct hose is 3" high temp silicone from Pegasus. I don't have any pics with the hose but here is another pic. The high temp hose connects to the blue hose sitting on top of the oil cooler duct. I'll try and get a pic of the hoses in the next week or two when I put my car up.
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Originally Posted by mj951
I have a pair of AIR cooling ducts installed. I used the foglight housing for mounting and fabricated spacers for the duct. The hoses run over the tops of my oil coolers. I'm planning to rebuild these ducts and make a few modifications. I would like to fasten the duct with concealed fasteners so you don't see the screw head as you do now and also make new spacers so the duct fits deeper into the bumper.
I really like the box you have done to direct air through your KISS oil cooler (I think its a Kiss) Deffinitely on my jobs to do
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Originally Posted by DanR
I really like the box you have done to direct air through your KISS oil cooler (I think its a Kiss) Deffinitely on my jobs to do
Thanks, the coolers, hoses and fittings were purchases through BAT.
Duct was bent up with a cheap 18" brake and rivited together, old school.
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thanks guys, my oil cooler is offset from the center of the car to the passenger side...so foglight ducts is the route which I will be going. I was thinking of the AIR ducts, but wanted to see what else was out there aside from fabricating some crazy setup
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those look awesome...why do you have to be in finland...make me a set please
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Yeah, I actually have been searching for some of these since I broke one of my fog lights.

Really wanna get my hands on a pair but I've no idea who sells them.
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why do you have to be in finland.
If you live in some very warm state (i suppose there is winter also in CT) i can move to your place
I prefer CA, especially Bay Area
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Originally Posted by 951_RS
Yeah, I actually have been searching for some of these since I broke one of my fog lights.

Really wanna get my hands on a pair but I've no idea who sells them.
AIR or American International Racing makes them, they have to be ordered over the phone. Or there is a whole kit that you can get from paragon products, but they wont have the ducts like AIR makes or close to what Olli made himself. They are more like bucket scoops for the paragon product ones...so Either I do the paragon product ones and put black wire mesh over them or I go with AIR and do my own setup.

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If you live in some very warm state (i suppose there is winter also in CT) i can move to your place
I prefer CA, especially Bay Area
Yeah, there is winter here in CT...good ol' new england weather...god i hate it
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Originally Posted by Justin@Endlessdetails
AIR or American International Racing makes them, they have to be ordered over the phone. Or there is a whole kit that you can get from paragon products, but they wont have the ducts like AIR makes or close to what Olli made himself. They are more like bucket scoops for the paragon product ones...so Either I do the paragon product ones and put black wire mesh over them or I go with AIR and do my own setup.
Just looked up both products. I think I might get the AIR ducts and then use the paragon hose and brake backing plate to route the air to the brakes. Seems like a pretty nice setup combined. Not a big fan of the paragon ducts being zip tied to the bumper.
Still not sure how the AIR is attached, but I imagine that is just up to the purchaser as to how to do that.
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Originally Posted by 951_RS
Just looked up both products. I think I might get the AIR ducts and then use the paragon hose and brake backing plate to route the air to the brakes. Seems like a pretty nice setup combined. Not a big fan of the paragon ducts being zip tied to the bumper.
Still not sure how the AIR is attached, but I imagine that is just up to the purchaser as to how to do that.
read mj951's post from up above


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