<VV> Re: brake bias/balance

[Sethracer@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/2/2005 9:02:43 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
djtcz@comcast.net writes:

Modern  FWD cars start at 60/40. Hard braking has to shift that to near 
80/20. It  looks to me like Even dinky little rear drums are probably not a real  
hindrance on some cars, and rear disks may have to be turned way  down.

Certainly on vehicles with sticky tires, powerful brakes, and  high center of 
gravity/short wheel base, like modern motorcycles the rear  wheel brake might 
as well be a shriveled appendage when braking at the  "limit."



On the Z51 option package for the 2005 Corvette, they replace the  standard 
rear calipers with ones with a smaller diameter piston. The front size  stayed 
the same and all four disk rotors got larger. Hmmm.   -Seth