<VV> Re: brake bias/balance

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

Sethracer@aol.com wrote:

> 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.

The great LJK Setright, the very eccentric and brilliant Jewish journalist 
who has an enormously long beard (like Moses!) and writes for the British 
CAR! magazine (or used to until recently) once said that the only purpose of 
rear wheels (and brakes) on an FWD car was to stop the back of the body 
dragging along the ground.

He hates FWD because he reckons it overtasks the front wheels and corrupts 
the messages that the steering sends to the driver - and on most cars he is 
right. Not quite all, though.

Cheers

Alan