Ray,
Thanks, great work and it proves the "without data you are only an opinion" cliche.
While I believe your test was useful, it would also be useful to check them after 30 minutes of stop and go city driving. The early temps from ambient (as you tested) are likely to be dominated by heating the rotor's thermal mass, than representative of the steady state temp after saturation when only convection and to a lesser extent radiation (RARA isn't the only Engineer around) determine resultant rotor temp.
I expect differences to be dramatic - probably raising the front vs. rear temp delta even higher that your initial tests.
My only question is "What if I repeat your test (which I have to now), and get 330 F fronts and 75 F rears, instead of your 218F and 110 F nominally?
Underbiased rears (from where they SHOULD be) for me maybe?
Hmmmm..... maybe I can go to the CEG forums and be flamed trying to get some ideas then.
I don't really dispute the "expert" status of those you refer to as their earlier proportioning posts are informative, but how can their advice on this particular item be "expert" if they obviously haven't even read the situation (new parts initially, thinks I said 110F sizzled). Kind of like a Judge who can give the expert verdict before hearing the evidence.
I've never been confused on the fact that most cars have higher front brake temps. I buy it. Also all the load transfer stuff from even TCE. Great stuff. I'm not confused at all.
In only the second post here I said:
"Thanks - I certainly realize that the fronts handle a majority of the braking (>70%) but that fact doesn't mean a case can't arise where the backs are still far under-biased from where they SHOULD be."
Key word SHOULD.
Thanks again.
