Thread: Larger rear brakes???

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Originally Posted by John Palmer

Pat, I understand and agree with your point.

But, on my roadster I have found that I have plenty of bias adjustment just using the Wilwood brake bias valve. It's on a 32 High Boy, steel body, 350/350 Chevy, and an 8" Ford rear end.

I think cars with "very narrow" front tires can over power the front tires traction and might need to move the bias to the rear as necessary. We found this necessary on our aircooled VW drag car because of the light weight on the front end.

yep i see both side of this .i like a wide front tire .long ago a had a bad ride with small front tires .on cars under 3000 you can get way with more front bias ( i think ???may be wrong) with smaller tires. but with tub out cars and heavy cars with no gear (engine braking ) i think the back brake see abit more work out. on my GTO i use a big ford drum brake with disc up front that were Gm and would stop very good .now i have the wilwoods disc up front to get some weight off the car and still stops fine but thinking of going with the rear wilwood street dics in the back some day more for looks and the parking brakes