Brake advice please

[cps13]

Hi,

I am wondering, if my kit car (tiger) has rear drum brakes, would it be dangerous to put wilwood 4 pots on the front?

My thinking is that the braking performance at the front would far out weigh that of the rear.

Thanks

[one eyed mick]

MyRH runs std sieirra drums on the rear ,with HiSpec 4 pot calipers and their advised pads on the front no issues in 10 k miles

[ugg10]

If it is a sierra rear then you can always use the 9" drums (if you don't already have them) and also make sure you have an inertia switch on the rears to stop them locking up before the fronts.

[PaulKemp]

A much bigger proportion of a cars braking is done from the front so no issues excepting that if its a road car it must pass MOT
Weight transfer etc
If you were racing you would want a closer amount front / rear with a brake bias arrangment

[LLantrisant]

if you change the front brakes to bigger ones, you transfer more braking force to the front axle and the already underloaded rear brakes will even work less.

means you make the brake balance, consequitively the brake efficiancy, worse.

with such a modification you need to think about installing a bias brake system (means new pedal box)..if not already installed.

[JohnEM]

With My Striker I got a real improvement by putting Mintex M1144 Pads on the front, however with hard road tyres the fronts do lockup
but with supersoft ZZR's when hillcimbing a bit harder to lockup, but get real feel, Standard pads feel like blocks of wood by comparison.
hope that helps.