Which master cylinder for 4 wheel disk brakes

OK, I agree on the rears being possibly delayed due to the springing differences; but my understanding of those springs is to make sure the secondary piston comes back to the right spot like the primary piston. not to provide any timing.. but maybe not?? The force out of the secondary piston will build up to the same as the primary in a fraction of a second once both fill ports are closed. The secondary piston could pass the fill port a little later than the primary piston, but any transient difference in fill port timing would not seem to be of any use as the car's weight is not yet shifted. And the primary cannot build to any real pressure as long as the secondary piston is not building pressure.

So as far as any actual F/R brake bias, I am still not getting that with equal piston diameters....

BTW, FWIW I think some GM MC's in the 70's/80's had stepped bore sizes......again IIRC. It has been a long time....

On older cars, not really sure what they did. Maybe they are 50/50.

On current stuff...well, they're showing the master cylinder bias on basically all of them, short of a few diagonal split cars. I work on ESC modules and we get this information direct from the OEMs. Of course we can't share this information directly. There are even diagonal split cars with not exactly 50/50 splits, which couldn't happen any other way. I believe that for a larger split they are also using orifices.

Since the secondary piston floats, in order for it to move the pressure on the other side (being applied by the primary piston) must exceed both the pressure in the secondary bore AND the spring force of the secondary return spring in order to move. I'm not sure exactly how strong the springs are

The only time the primary piston actually acts directly on the secondary piston is when the primary circuit has a leak.