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Brake Balance

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Patrick Lawrence 5000
13 years 151 days ago
Brake Balance...

Balanced how exacly? Low value = less braking???

Help!
Jack Basford 5036 CEO & CTO
13 years 151 days ago
Lower is more rearward, higher is more frontal bias.
Patrick Lawrence 5000
13 years 150 days ago
Sounds good to me. 

Why would you want more rear versus front?
Unknown 0
13 years 150 days ago
"Neil
Sounds good to me. 

Why would you want more rear versus front?

In corners when you need to turn while braking/not lock up fronts while turning.
ron jones 5000
13 years 150 days ago
also balances front/rear for different conditions. in real life, under wet/slick conditions you need less front braking because with less traction you will not transfer as much weight onto the front brakes and they will be more lock up prone.   that may seem counter intuitive but believe me that's the way it works.
Unknown 0
13 years 150 days ago
"ron
also balances front/rear for different conditions. in real life, under wet/slick conditions you need less front braking because with less traction you will not transfer as much weight onto the front brakes and they will be more lock up prone.   that may seem counter intuitive but believe me that's the way it works.

Interesting stuff.
Matt Kingsbury 5000
13 years 150 days ago
what Ron said is pretty much it. The more towards the front the better, just as long as it does not lock up
Jack Basford 5036 CEO & CTO
13 years 149 days ago
"ron
also balances front/rear for different conditions. in real life, under wet/slick conditions you need less front braking because with less traction you will not transfer as much weight onto the front brakes and they will be more lock up prone.   that may seem counter intuitive but believe me that's the way it works.

Thanks for this post, I did not know that. In fact I was moving it forward in the wet assuming you would want to avoid rear locking and spinning.

I have inverted (and reduced) the brake balance impact to be more rearward for wet weather setups, after confirming this with a couple of race engineers.
Matt Kingsbury 5000
13 years 149 days ago
Yep, Ron is a retired racer of sorts. Recall some rally racing stories at least and the datsun I believe.
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