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Re: Brake design question - Ray? Anyone?
Braking force on any system is distributed about 60/40 front to rear. This
explains why one goes through front brakes at a roughly 2:1 ratio over the
back brakes.
"Mark" <bogusmailmark@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> With a 4-wheel disc brake configuration, is the braking force (and
> wear) distributed more evenly front-to-back than the use of discs in
> the front and drum brakes in the rear? It may be my imagination, but I
> think the rotors used on my Scion (all disc brakes) are smaller in the
> front than those of my Matrix (disc/drum combination), even though the
> weight of the cars is comparable, and I was wondering if the rear
> brakes are intended to take more of the load.
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