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Old 12-20-2006, 04:23 AM   #38 (permalink)
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taking in all info....

either way.... my stock brakes are not cutting it and they aren't even stock.
i have motul rbf600 in my brake lines, SS brake lines, hawk HPS pads, and need i say stoptech slotted oem sized rotors(not good for much but looks) ... but with this much power ... it's hard to stop ...

hundred to stop is a task ..... and is worst than stock without a doubt under this much power ... i had upgraded the pads and lines hoping to curb this a bit but it's clearly not enough.

i can either upgrade to hawk hp plus or just get overally more braking power...

i'm thinking hp plus will not make that much of a difference... my tires are as sticky as high performance street tires come and my rims are light so that's covered ...

front BBK will increase rotational mass but i'm thinking it has enough clamping force to counter this also along with the weight i lost with my rims and sticky tires....

the brake bias thing ... how does it actually work?
stock.... i'm thinking what if i'm stopping slowly... there's isn't a need to put rear braking force so why would the rear be used anyway? isn't there some way where the car figures that the speed is enuff for the front to handle alone?
again stock.... i'm going fast now and stopping ... now help is needed to stop so the rear gets used? so now i'm using all 4.

modified/bbk ... stop slowly ... same as first scenario...
modified/bbk .... going fast ... but now i have a front BBK ... is there some way that the clamping force is noticed by the ebd or whatever and sees that the front is working better so it sends less force to the back anyway so that brake distribution is not as severe as the second scenario above? braking doesn't suffer cuz the front is better anyway so the back isn't needed as much but still get's used anyway?

don't know if this makes any sense... but i hope yall understand what i'm trying to get at here...

probably happen that the front brakes wear out faster than the rear but so what?

on my v6 accord with ebd ... the rear brakes always wore out first!! what gives?
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