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In a braking system, the shorter the line, the greater the pressure?

In a braking system, the shorter the line, the greater the pressure?

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not significant in a car-due to small expansions of lines and small fluid movements. If no movement of fluid, then no pressure drop.
not a noticable difference but that is one reason that the lines are setup in a x pattern the system works on pressure and there fore the lines are the same amount of pressure uniformaly due to having a single booster and resivior now you can install a brake controler/valve that lessens the flow to a specific brake/brakes section there for increasing the flow to the other sections also if you change the diameter of the line you have a different flow rate goodluck
Length doesn't have anything to do with pressure in hydraulic systems. The PSI is the same from the master cylinder to the caliper. The reason the braking pressure is magnified is because the master cylinder has a smaller bore than the caliper. It's like leverage. The master cylinder has to travel farther than the caliper piston because of the difference in cross-sectional area. The calipers have a larger diameter piston, but don't move in and out as much. For example: If you have 10 kg pressure on a 1cm^2 master cylinder, you have a pressure of 10kg/cm^2 in the hydraulic system. The same pressure is at the caliper, but instead of a 1cm^2 piston, say you have a 10cm^2 piston. That makes 100kg pressure at the caliper. Compare that to the 10kg of pressure on the master cylinder. The braking leverage is the same as the ratio of the area of the pistons. But you can have more mechanical leverage on the brake pedal itself too. The same principle can be used to balance the pressure between the front and rear calipers. Although there are other ways to do it too.

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