[Fot] brake bias / balance

[Tony Drews]

On the track, I've always understood that you crank in rear brake 
until the rears start to lock before the fronts and then back off 
until they quit doing that (be careful if you've got a locker!).

No clue how to do it for a street car, although I would think you 
would want a bit more front bias on the street (controllability is 
more important than total stopping power there).

- Tony

At 08:13 AM 4/4/2007, Mike wrote:
>FOT;
>    We're doing some brake mods to a street car and questions started to
>arise about brake balance / bias.
>    While it seems the optimum situation calls for a slight (5%-10%)
>front bias, how do we determine where it is now? Temp readings on the
>discs seems to give numbers all over the place, but seem to settle
>around 450F in the front and 250F in the rear. Does this mean we have a
>60/40 split? Is this an effective way to measure bias? When setting up a
>street or race car how do you determine how much to adjust the balance?
>Seat of the pants and what works best? Or is there a 'scientific' approach?
>
>Mike Engard
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