So i'm sure this has been covered somewhere through history but i can't find specifically what i'm looking for and wanted to get a discussion going about this. We all drive pretty much the same car, we've discussed brakes in a lot of forms, but i consider this to be as much or more suspension-related. Maybe i'm the only one but i doubt it. My car brake dives to the point where it stresses me out to drive it sometimes. The other car did it too, which may partially have accounted for it's shitty stopping and unfortunate piling into an asshole in an explorer.
Anyhow, it seems to me like this may be the result of multiple suspension issues and perhaps these cars just having a weird pivot point balance-wise. In the other car if i had to do a hard stop sometimes it would dive and then lock up one or both rear tires. Sometimes it'd lock the fronts a bit too but seemed to be mostly the rears. I attribute this to the dive unloading a lot of weight from the rear and making the already lock-prone drums easily do the deed. Is there any good way to combat this? I've read that the big brake swap with newer master cylinder/etc. definitely helps with the touchiness, and i reckon going rear disc may help too, but it seems to me that the car under braking will still feel like it's full of water that's all sloshing to the front, lol.
Interested in opinions/statements from those who have perhaps lowered their cars, modified suspensions in other ways, sway bar setups, shocks, etc. For reference, my car is a '90 CV LX with KYB gas-a-justs(non-police) all the way around, addco sway bar in front and PI rear bar. Suspension is otherwise original, including bushings that could probably stand to be replaced. Recently replaced front calipers, rotors, ceramic pads. Running 17x8 wheels with 255/50/17 Nitto 555's.
Anyhow, it seems to me like this may be the result of multiple suspension issues and perhaps these cars just having a weird pivot point balance-wise. In the other car if i had to do a hard stop sometimes it would dive and then lock up one or both rear tires. Sometimes it'd lock the fronts a bit too but seemed to be mostly the rears. I attribute this to the dive unloading a lot of weight from the rear and making the already lock-prone drums easily do the deed. Is there any good way to combat this? I've read that the big brake swap with newer master cylinder/etc. definitely helps with the touchiness, and i reckon going rear disc may help too, but it seems to me that the car under braking will still feel like it's full of water that's all sloshing to the front, lol.
Interested in opinions/statements from those who have perhaps lowered their cars, modified suspensions in other ways, sway bar setups, shocks, etc. For reference, my car is a '90 CV LX with KYB gas-a-justs(non-police) all the way around, addco sway bar in front and PI rear bar. Suspension is otherwise original, including bushings that could probably stand to be replaced. Recently replaced front calipers, rotors, ceramic pads. Running 17x8 wheels with 255/50/17 Nitto 555's.
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