Drum brake upgrade

[Yaris Hilton]

Generally the rear brakes only account for about 30% of your braking power. Any changes you make need to be balanced with the front brakes or the rear wheels will lock up and lengthen your stopping distance. (Assuming you don't have ABS.)

Disc brakes are harder to use with a parking brake. Most cars with 4-wheel discs have an auxiliary parking brake drum.

[firebob]

Originally Posted by Yaris Hilton

Disc brakes are harder to use with a parking brake. Most cars with 4-wheel discs have an auxiliary parking brake drum.

They do make calipers that have a lever that pushes the pads together for the parking break but it’s been used on few cars and still dose not have all the bugs worked out yet. I’m sure one of the manufactures will start using it soon and will be a new problem for the masses. At one point one manufacture will out way the issue of fewer parts to build into a car to the issue of fixing them under warranty…