Brakes front and rear

[92zcamaroperson]

Anyone know what the front to rear ratio is for a four wheel disc system?

[CamarosRsweet94]

Front to rear ratio??? What the hell are you talking about? How much stopping they do???

[92zcamaroperson]

....Maybe Im wrong but dosent the front has more stopping power than the back? that little box that the master cylinder hooks to. ...cant remember what its called. OR maybe i know so little about it that I should just stop talking about it. maybe

[CamarosRsweet94]

Physically speaking; the front brakes do more stopping than the rear, that it why some cars have front disc but rear drum brakes. I think it's about 60% front 40% rear. But that all depends on the weight of the car and the suspension setup. A car with bad shocks in it can throw that all off and cause the car to have really horrbile braking ability.

[89IROC&RS]

i think hes talking about the proportioning valve. as to the answer, i dont know.

[92zcamaroperson]

thats it the proportioning valve. Lost the name for a while. But i guess no one knows what the ratio is.

[CamarosRsweet94]

yeah, I think I've heard of that before too, usually comes up when somebody is talking about converting to rear disc brakes from rear drum. You could do a search on the forum about that and you might find something on it.