What's this all about then?

Braking is a pretty simple concept, but is often misunderstood. In order for your brakes to be working effeciently, they need to be making the most of the available grip, and they need to be working at the correct temperature. Forget the massive discs and machined billet calipers with eleventy hundred pistons, if there is grip left on the table or the brakes are at the wrong temperature, then the system is crap.

This calculator is designed to be a quick check of those basic factors. Chuck you cars specs in the inputs, select your braking components and check the basic parameters of bias and temperature. You want to get all of them sitting in the green zones of the guages for your particular setup. If you spend all your time driving under 70mph, then set the V1 speed to that for the best reflection. If you drive on track, use the speeds that you most commonly brake from.

What do the disc temperatures represent?

The disc temperatures are calculated as the average over a 2 minute test cycle of braking and acceleration between the V1 and V2 speeds. Please note, this is only a basic calculation incorportating energy flow into a mass of metal and the rate of dissipation through the surface area. Occasionally it may throw an erraneous result. If this happens, try tweaking the input speeds slightly.

Why does the braking distance get progressivly shorter if I keep adding rear brake force?

The algorithm is only set to solve for front lock up. You can continue to add rear bias past the point that the rear tyres would lock and it will continue to add to the overall brake force. I will sort this out, but for now make sure the guage stays out of the red area!