front only brake upgrade?

[barryogen]

Just pondering...

/me looks at the front calipers, then the rear...

Seeing as the back brakes do little work, why don't people just upgrade the front rotors(and calipers) and put the ex-front ones on the back...

[AceSniper]

how would the front ones work with the handbrake

[barryogen]

how would the front ones work with the handbrake

damn it, I knew I was missing something simple.

[beeker]

how would the front ones work with the handbrake

Some high performance brake kits have a seperate hand brake caliper dont they ?

Not that this really help !

[Ae92typeX]

There are plenty of cars on the road with a seperate drum internal for the hand brake on rear disk units, in which case you probably could adapt the fronts to the rears...but depending on the application, as you say, rears do very little, so just upgrade the front and scratch touching the back except perhaps a better set of pads.

[85AW20v]

You do have to be careful though that you don't upset the swept area ratio from front to back too much - but I have no idea how much too much is:!:

[suckymotor]

hydrolic hand brake but you do need to get it certed

[imdying]

I would be suprised if a hydraulic handbrake was legal in nz, or whether it could be certified. The whole idea of a handbrake, is to have a braking system with only mechanical links. The drum in disc handbrake systems are far superior to handbrake calipers.

[GT4 20]

Hydraulic handbrake can be legally certed - but only on a race car IIRC. Doing exactly this on my Rover. 355mm rotors with Wilwood 6 pots up front and 300mm with twin pots on the back will require a hydraulic set up. Just right for those handbrake turns
Gary