E-brake engages the Front or back brakes?
05-03-2012, 01:29 PM
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If you would brake hard on the front & rear, hard enough to have the rear loose grip completely, then the weight transfer would be the same when braking at the front alone.
If you know what I mean.
But that does not happen, even during hard braking - front & rear - the rear has enough grip and the braking rear wheel(s)/tire(s) will influence the handling.
There is an extra force pointing backwars, behind the centre of gravity, not just in front of the centre of gravity from the front brakes.
It depends also on the suspension setup and weight distribution.
Like in a FWD car with the engine in the front on soft springs and bad shocks you could lift the rear wheels during braking, making the car very unstable!
Or what you see in FWD cup racers, the setup is so stiff that the inner rear wheel is loosing contact with the track during cornering.
But, that is the inner wheel only.
The other rear wheel is in full contact with the track and under full load and braking = creating the extra vector pointing backwards!
If you know what I mean.
But that does not happen, even during hard braking - front & rear - the rear has enough grip and the braking rear wheel(s)/tire(s) will influence the handling.
There is an extra force pointing backwars, behind the centre of gravity, not just in front of the centre of gravity from the front brakes.
It depends also on the suspension setup and weight distribution.
Like in a FWD car with the engine in the front on soft springs and bad shocks you could lift the rear wheels during braking, making the car very unstable!
Or what you see in FWD cup racers, the setup is so stiff that the inner rear wheel is loosing contact with the track during cornering.
But, that is the inner wheel only.
The other rear wheel is in full contact with the track and under full load and braking = creating the extra vector pointing backwards!
05-04-2012, 01:01 PM
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If you would brake hard on the front & rear, hard enough to have the rear loose grip completely, then the weight transfer would be the same when braking at the front alone.
If you know what I mean.
But that does not happen, even during hard braking - front & rear - the rear has enough grip and the braking rear wheel(s)/tire(s) will influence the handling.
There is an extra force pointing backwars, behind the centre of gravity, not just in front of the centre of gravity from the front brakes.
It depends also on the suspension setup and weight distribution.
Like in a FWD car with the engine in the front on soft springs and bad shocks you could lift the rear wheels during braking, making the car very unstable!
Or what you see in FWD cup racers, the setup is so stiff that the inner rear wheel is loosing contact with the track during cornering.
But, that is the inner wheel only.
The other rear wheel is in full contact with the track and under full load and braking = creating the extra vector pointing backwards!
If you know what I mean.
But that does not happen, even during hard braking - front & rear - the rear has enough grip and the braking rear wheel(s)/tire(s) will influence the handling.
There is an extra force pointing backwars, behind the centre of gravity, not just in front of the centre of gravity from the front brakes.
It depends also on the suspension setup and weight distribution.
Like in a FWD car with the engine in the front on soft springs and bad shocks you could lift the rear wheels during braking, making the car very unstable!
Or what you see in FWD cup racers, the setup is so stiff that the inner rear wheel is loosing contact with the track during cornering.
But, that is the inner wheel only.
The other rear wheel is in full contact with the track and under full load and braking = creating the extra vector pointing backwards!
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