Baer brakes installed and working

[Aurora40]

Rather than continue a 4+ page thread, I thought I'd start a new one. I bled the brakes today with the assistance of my wife. At first the pedal still felt a bit soft, but I wanted to break them in to see if that helped.

To bed the brakes, there's a neighborhood boulevard I use. It's maybe 7 suburban blocks long. I'll go about two blocks speeding up to 45-55mph, then hit the brakes fairly hard down to about 10mph. Then when I get near the end, I make a U-turn and do it again. I probably hit the brakes about 7 times or so like this when I noticed they went extremely soft. I could push the pedal to the floor and not activate the ABS.

At first I thought "what crappy brakes", but then thought maybe they were too hot. So I took a long spin around my town to cool them down. Then I didn't try bedding them anymore, but did speed up to ~60mph and hit the brakes hard. I could activate the ABS easily.

So apparently they just faded from use. I was a bit surprised though that this happened. FWIW, the fluid I used was Valvoline synthetic, but not their "SynPower", I couldn't find that anywhere. Maybe I need better fluid? Or maybe it's just these stock rotors? In messing around with them so much, they sure are thin. Even the Aurora has obviously thicker front rotors, to my surprise. Though only 12" in diameter. I didn't expect bedding the brakes was that hard on them though.

All told the brakes don't seem that different. The pedal feels similar in that it moves a little before anything much happens, but then they come on a little less progressively. They feel good, just not much different.

However, here is what I am now wondering about. The brake bias. When I got home, after a reasonable drive (3-4 miles of highway) of no/little braking, the fronts were hot. Heat was wafting out of the wheel. The rears, I could rest my hand on the caliper or the rotor no problem. So do I need to do something to adjust the bias?