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medal 5000
12 years 251 days ago
Brake Balance...

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

Help!
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medal 5090 CEO & CTO
12 years 251 days ago
Lower is more rearward, higher is more frontal bias.
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medal 5000
12 years 250 days ago
Sounds good to me. 

Why would you want more rear versus front?
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medal 0
12 years 250 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.
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medal 5000
12 years 250 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.
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medal 0
12 years 250 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.
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medal 5000
12 years 249 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
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medal 5090 CEO & CTO
12 years 249 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.
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medal 5000
12 years 249 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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