Zip tie your rear brake ducts
05-09-2016, 10:14 PM
#16
Drifting
You pretty much got it. It is just wrapped around the duct as a whole to keep the bottom pieces from falling off. You have to buy the whole duct of you lose the bottom piece. They are really not well attached and if you look at the duct, you'll see how easy it would be for it to either fall off it not well attached, or even if something just slightly catches the front of it to get pulled off, which is the lowest part of the car.
Who knows if it will be enough? Time will tell, but nothing to lose and makes it a bit more sturdy.
Who knows if it will be enough? Time will tell, but nothing to lose and makes it a bit more sturdy.
05-09-2016, 10:23 PM
#17
Ok, so just to consider other possibilities, let's suppose something came along the bottom of the car that without this setup would rip the bottom half of the ducts right off. If the ducts have zip ties around them, that same object might not have any effect, or it could instead rip the entire duct off -- would the latter happen cleanly, or to continue the line of thinking in the post above yours, are these ducts DESIGNED to allow only the bottom part to break away because it's not possible to rip the entire duct away without taking some other parts as well?
I am absolutely certain if something serious catches them the zip ties will still go before the top goes and rip only the bottom off. Just gives some assurance that they don't come off for very little. Along those lines I also used pretty thin zip ties and not monster ones...
Regardless, they aren't too expensive and is around $120 each if I remember correctly, so for folks that just want to not zip tie them, it's not too big a deal in my opinion...
05-09-2016, 10:47 PM
#18
Drifting
You may be right. But that said, I guess the bottom part comes lose too easily and there have been cases where they simply fell off during street driving. The top part is pretty sturdily attached. I took them off to trim them and had the wrestle them quite a bit to get them off.
I am absolutely certain if something serious catches them the zip ties will still go before the top goes and rip only the bottom off. Just gives some assurance that they don't come off for very little. Along those lines I also used pretty thin zip ties and not monster ones...
Regardless, they aren't too expensive and is around $120 each if I remember correctly, so for folks that just want to not zip tie them, it's not too big a deal in my opinion...
I am absolutely certain if something serious catches them the zip ties will still go before the top goes and rip only the bottom off. Just gives some assurance that they don't come off for very little. Along those lines I also used pretty thin zip ties and not monster ones...
Regardless, they aren't too expensive and is around $120 each if I remember correctly, so for folks that just want to not zip tie them, it's not too big a deal in my opinion...
05-09-2016, 11:47 PM
#19
Burning Brakes
Ok, makes sense. I also just took a look at them myself since I realized they're fairly visible through the wheels and from behind the car even while it's on the ground, and I guess even if the zip ties held together when confronted with something more serious, the next point of failure would probably be the plastic of the duct itself shearing off somewhere (leaving you with only the rear half of the upper and lower pieces of the duct) rather than the zip ties and full duct assembly holding together so well that they instead take some other part of the car off as well.
05-10-2016, 12:41 AM
#21
Burning Brakes
05-10-2016, 03:50 AM
#23
Rennlist Member
I have a better idea
Put a hole in the lower brake duct and run a zip tie through and then tie in another zip tie to the area above ... This way the duct comes off but will not be lost as it will still be tied to the car ...
Put a hole in the lower brake duct and run a zip tie through and then tie in another zip tie to the area above ... This way the duct comes off but will not be lost as it will still be tied to the car ...
05-10-2016, 08:35 AM
#24
Burning Brakes
I was thinking the same thing--somehow tethering the 2 pieces together.
05-10-2016, 09:23 AM
#26
Burning Brakes
I think you guys are over thinking this. No one has talked about the zip tie mod breaking anything. But people that have not done it are talking about replacing the bottom half that came off. I say zip and go......had mine done prior to delivery and haven't looked back..........Phil
05-10-2016, 10:39 AM
#27
Drifting
Thought of this myself last night, but it doesn't seem to solve the problem because while that may have allowed breakaway with the first impact, it just means that now the lower half is allowed to dangle under your car, which increases its exposure, and at some point something will still have to give.
05-10-2016, 11:17 AM
#28
Rennlist Member
05-10-2016, 11:53 AM
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