brake prop valve adusting, any experience doing this? Options

[Trekkor]

I still have the stock proportioning valve in the car.

I think the brakes favor the fronts a little too much.

I smoke the fronts, never the rears.

I'd like to put on some junk tires and see if I can get to the point where when I apply max brake pressure, the rears lock just after the fronts. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif)

Anybody try this experiment?


KT

[JWest]

QUOTE (trekkor @ Aug 23 2005, 01:05 AM)

I'd like to put on some junk tires and see if I can get to the point where when I apply max brake pressure, the rears lock just after the fronts. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif)

That is a bad set of control conditions. The good tires you normally run will transfer more weight to the front (more grip), leaving less vertical force on the rear tires (less rear grip and more front grip). Your rear brakes will lock first if you had the bias set perfectly with the lesser tires.

You probably do want more rear bias than stock, just don't test it this way.