braking loads

[Burl Vibert]

That would be a very scary prospect to only run R compound in front on
a 911.  I have V700 in 245's on the rear. Other things can affect
braking performance as well. Things like the raised spindles, negative
camber, RSR fiberglass bumper/airdam, etc.  I never realized other
SC's wore brake pads differently than mine, dunno.

Burl Vibert
1987 5000cstq
1983 911SC
Kingston, Ontario


Larry C Leung wrote:
> 
> If you only have the R-rubber on front, their extra grip appearsto be
> balancing out the otherwise uneven brake wear of the 911. I'd imagine
> that if you ran the V700's all the way around, you'd have the same wear
> as the other 911SC owners. Those with earlier S, E or T models
> non-withstanding, of course.
> 
> LL - NY
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 23:40:36 -0400 Burl Vibert <blur at sympatico.ca>
> writes:
> >
> >Mine usually has 225mm Kumho V700's on the front and many, many
> >autocrosses, so maybe that throws off the equation. Maybe it's the
> >Metalmasters?
> >The earlier cars had same size tires all around. I imagine this could
> >also affect brake wear.

> >
> >John Larson wrote:
> >>
> >> Interesting.  I sell twice the number of rear pad sets to SC owners
> >as
> >> fronts.  Been that way as far back as they started to come in for
> >service.
> >> I run a customer list of about 20 SCs, some go away, new ones come
> >in.
> >> Earlier cars don't seem to exhibit the same symptoms.  John
> >
> >> > John Larson wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > For the general body of knowledge, and maybe relevant to this
> >> discussion,
> >> > > 911SCs eat rear pads.  Maybe 2 to 1, as opposed to most cars
> >being the
> >> > > opposite and more, maybe 3 or 4 to 1 front/rear.  John
> >> >
> >> > Hi John
> >> >
> >> > Mine doesn't??
> >> >
> >> > Axxis/PBR/Repco Metalmasters front and rear, maybe 2 to 1 more
> >front
> >> > wear.  Incredibly, same rotors since before I bought it, 6 years
> >and
> >> > 60,000 miles ago, some of which were not easy miles.  They were
> >just
> >> > reaching their wear limit last time I checked but I haven't
> >gotten
> >> > around to changing them yet.