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Old Dec 20, 2005 | 10:10 PM
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Question How to beef up the rear brakes on our cars??

Since the rear brakes dont seem to do ANYTHING ..
any ideas?
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Old Dec 21, 2005 | 03:53 AM
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Rear brakes never do much of anything. Most of the stopping power is done by the fronts. Has something to do with weight transfer. Why do you think the front brakes are always so much bigger than the rears?
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Old Dec 21, 2005 | 05:12 AM
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right... but the 350z rear brakes are particularly weak somehow because when i pull it going into a corner i dont get much feedback and just understeers...
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Old Dec 21, 2005 | 05:57 AM
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Originally Posted by jvanquish
right... but the 350z rear brakes are particularly weak somehow because when i pull it going into a corner i don't get much feedback and just understeers...
Sounds like you are talking about the hand brake?

Those are just little drums, pull harder, you don't have a lot of leverage. Some of the drift guys are adding hand brake handle extensions so they can pull it harder.

Chris
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Old Dec 21, 2005 | 06:05 AM
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yeah but in other cars... like the audi i had b4
i could pull it and slide out really easily
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Old Dec 21, 2005 | 06:09 AM
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The rear brakes really suck. I did 2 spirited trips around the block and they were smoking.
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