Brake upgrade question...

I have a Strange D60 axle with Wilwood 4 piston disc brakes that I have installed. I currently only have the stock front brakes on the car. Only mod I've made has been changing to a disc/disc proportioning valve.

I have yet to drive the car with this combo and am in the process of doing front suspension upgrades. Wanted to ask everyone here if there's anyone who has upgraded their rear brakes to 4 piston disc and left the front brakes the stock single piston, and how drivability has been. Same goes for 4 piston rear disc & 2WD Blazer dual piston front brake upgrade and drivability.

There's definitely a front brake upgrade in my future, just not sure if it'll be the 2WD Blazer dual piston upgrade, or the Vette upgrade, or some sort of aftermarket upgrade from Wilwood or something...

I'm currently sporting 15" wheels so anything beyond the 2WD upgrade will also require a wheel/tire upgrade as well. I'm trying to not get too deep financially on this right now but at the same time I don't want to have drivability issues by having 4x the braking power out back than I have up front. However, since I'll have the suspension apart doing ball joints/bushings/tie rods/springs/shocks/etc. I may as well make a brake upgrade now. But hesitant to go the 2WD Blazer dual piston route just to find out it's not good enough and have to go the Vette route. So, would like to either leave stock for now & do the brake upgrade later, or do the 2WD Blazer dual piston upgrade now and leave it at that.

Thanks in advance for any & all feedback!

pontiacgp said:

why not install an adjustable bias valve so you can lower the pressure to the back brakes if needed

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I've considered that too... I don't really want to uninstall a new prop valve that's already in there. But that might be the best "for now" alternative if the stock or 2WD S10 brakes won't work.

Streetbu said:

Here my .02 Install the Blazer spindles and brakes now. If you need or want to later, they are a simple brake job to upgrade all the way up to 15" rotors! Merely unbolt the Blazer stuff and bolt the new huge brakes in place along with the adapter bracket. Simple as that.

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That's exactly what I've been kind of thinking. I have a set of spindles from eBay en route as we speak, as well as calipers/rotors/etc. I also went ahead & bought a Summit single line in/out adjustable proportioning valve I'll put on the rear line (probably aft of the new disc/disc prop valve) so that I can back off pressure if the 4 piston Wilwoods in the rear are too "grabby" with just 2 piston Blazer brakes up front.

86MCLS said:

I have a set of spindles from eBay en route as we speak

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Uh, make that I HAD a set of spindles coming... Got the tracking alert this afternoon that the package was delivered... Got home from work, no package!! I asked my next door neighbor who is a garbage man who gets home fairly early if he remembers seeing a package on my doorstep but he said there wasn't one when he got home. Next neighbor over has 2 cameras but they're not home so when I see them next I'll ask them to look at their camera footage.

They were sent USPS Priority Mail and the USPS doesn't give 2 rips about delivering anything correctly around here (I've hand delivered USPS packages incorrectly left on my doorstep to their rightful owners many times) so I'm holding out hope that this is the case with my package and I'll see it soon. However package thefts are super rampant lately so who knows. Which is why I really want to see the camera footage, to see if the mailman actually went to my door or not, and if so, who took the package!!