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Originally Posted by Dave-ROR
I tried equal pads on the S2K, rear ABS activates before the front so if I want to threshold brake I can't use all of the front brake available.
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The system should be able to increase braking at one end of the car even after ABS is activated at the other end. That's the whole idea of multi-channel ABS, no?
Way back when my ABS *did* work, it definitely activated on the fronts first.
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Same problem with the other cars I've owned, especially ones without ABS or ABS removed.
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For sure, any reasonably designed car that never had abs should lock the fronts well before the rears. That is the critical design criterion. I've always found that to be the case. NEVER locked rears first on a stock non-abs system. Never seen it happen. I have heard credible reports of ABS cars with ABS non-functioning or disabled locking the rears first. IMO, these systems should all be designed to ensure that fronts lock up first even without ABS functioning, but of course that don't make it so...
For the S2k, I've heard stories like yours, that rears locked first. All I can say is I've run mine for years with no ABS, with a variety of different pad compounds (always same front/rear), and on a variety of tires (winters to R-comps), under a wide variety of conditions (dry/wet/inundated on street and track, also snow on the street), and I've *ALWAYS* locked the fronts first (not infrequently, either).
I honestly don't understand how/why people are able to lock the rears first on the S2k.