stockcar

sorry to disagree with some very informative posts but rear engined cars and 4wd cars have a similiar need.............maybe the above post isn't as clear as i thought??

very simply if you can stop as much 'pitch' to the front under braking then you WILL get more all round braking effort, a more stable car and you will find it harder to lock the tyres up...........at either end!!

this is achieved on a 4wd car by using more rear braking effort, in general terms ALL scooby's suffer from a lack of rear effort out of the factory so even running a better rear pad will help a std car..............

alyn

dazc

Alyn, on a standard car would you recommend upgrading the rear brake pads to a more grippy compound without first upgrading the fronts?

I would hope not, but its the same theory.
Sounds like a recipie for swapping ends on a wet day to me...

I can see where you are coming from, and if you pull the handbrake on a car when its moving it will sit down, but the weight transfer makes it a totally different issue does it not?

Daz

stockcar

no i'm not advocacting fitting completely wild rear brake pads, however you can benefit (and we've tested this many times) from fitting an O.E.+ stle rear pad and leaving std fronts which will help the car stay flatter under braking.................

think the thread is getting confused between weight transfer caused by CofG, geometry, etc. and the 'pitch' type transfer purely caused by brake distribution which can and is moved by altering the brake balance.......................

as an experiment for anyone who has an upgraded front set-up and std rears, try at the minimum "matching" pad compounds front and rear and then see how you get on...............i can pretty much guarantee that under hard braking you will have more control and better brakes