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According to a wilwood tech guy. A bigger caliper won't help you stop any better than the 4 piston caliper. It just gives you more clamping force. Same with going from 11 inch rotors to the 12.96 inch calipers. It won't be that much of a difference.
When I was thinking of disc brakes for the front of my coronet. I was told going with a bigger rotor and 6 piston calipers really doesn't make much difference from a 4 piston setup.
Same here. I've got the 11 inch wilwoods up front with 10 inch drums in the back. And have done numerous panic stops without ever locking up the brakes. And I don't have a proportioning valve or distribution block in the system.
I was watching Uncle Tony's Garage on leaf springs. And he mentioned Dave Dudek a well known F.A.S.T racer where he uses factory leaf springs, and what he does is add more clamps to the front segment of of the springs and removes the rear clamps so the springs fan out. Which would allow better...
I have 11 inch wilwood disc brakes up front and 10 inch drums in rear. Disc/drum master cylinder, no prop valve or distribution block. And I've done a few panic stops, never slid once.