Quote Originally Posted by LLoughman View Post
While true you can find the steel version, there is a performance difference. As mentioned earlier there is an almost 50% weight penalty in rotating mass and the steel drums offer less heat dissipation (steel vs aluminum and cooling fins). Since I have experienced a rear shoe delaminating more than once,
OK, so steel drums are bad b/c of less heat dissipation. Nevermind that I'm sure you could have custom shoes whipped up that would work at the higher heat but I follow your train of thought.

Most of the braking (energy to heat transfer) is done by the front of the car
Uhhhh... so how much heat can the rear be making?

Christian, who races a car with rear drums and will beat the "horses for courses" drum some other time.