Originally posted by Bryan C.
I always use 9/19 brake balance, always... I just like it that way. But then I have my pedals calibrated so that when the brake pedal is all the way depressed its only just over half of full braking, this give me ALOT of control in the lower braking powers, allowing me to do braking entries more precisely and easily, and seeing as how I tend to do brake entries more than anything else when going from a high speed straight to a sharp corner, I'd say that turns out great. I like it because it helps me break the rear end loose easier, if you set the brakes toward the front, it actually counter-acts the instability of the car, but eh, I'm just backwards I guess.
As for the weight transfer of the car, my car weight transfers just fine, and while this effect is amplified by shifting the brake power to the front of the car (sort of like only applying front brake on a bicycle at high speeds, you got flying over the handle-bars), I've found that by shifting the braking power to the rear, I can still achieve this effect, while keeping my brakes so that they help balance the car, this helps ALOT in inertia drifting, and I intertia drift and link ALOT, and alot of corners require some braking in-between. I cant link with the brakes toward the front because they balance the car out and cause under-steer, ruining my momentum,angle, and slide.
As for the e-brake argument, imo, ebrake is just another method of drifting, its a way of setting up for the corner, and usually earlier and with a great angle to the corner, its usually used in showy exhibition drifting, nothign wrong with it at all, I dont use it that way, but I do use it to extend the line of my drift if I get into a drift too soon and need to extend my line a bit to get back on track.
