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Lehto · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject:

5000SE wrote:

The balance? Drum brakes are cheaper to make.

Yea thats just about only considerable advantage in a CHEAP and SMALL shopping bucket... its just cheaper to make and propably cheaper to buy. Otherwise the drum brakes reminds me of americans and their vague attempts to create car suspension with solid axle and leaf springs. What comes to the 800 handbrake in my 820Si the rear wheels locked on dry asphalt easily when i pulled the handbrake and it was easy to make handbrake slides with it.

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rover v8 · SD1 User Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 103 Location: Finland

My car has 302mm front brakes with std vitesse 4piston calibers. And rear disks are 290mm and rover 800 calibers.
I have got wilwood adjustable balance valve and settings/limiting is 0%
I try first use original sd1 balance valve, but rear disk brakes dosent lock at all even if i drive at sand road.
Then i remove the original balance valve and but the wilwood system, and best setup in my car is zero limiting setup. Now rear brakes lock on sand road, and if i drive about 60miles/h asphalt road and press brake pedal in the floor. My front brakes lock first..
I have got Koni adjustable suspension (hardest setup)

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Timo..