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zamora7
04-24-2011, 04:41 PM
I'm getting a little breathing room in the budget for my project and want to finally complete the beake set up and can't figure out what valve would work and be good for my setup. First off the car is a 1980 Trans Am that has the front converted to c5 brakes and keeping the rear with drums for now. I'm going to go ahead and order a 10lb residual valve as recommended by Tobin from Kore3, buy a dual 9" booster, and the mc that goes with it. I was going ahead and order all this stuff but I started looking at the proportioning valves and got a little confused since they have single inlet/outlets, dual inlets and three outlets so I came here for help. I'm leaning towards a wilwood but I may go different direction if recommended. Thanks for any input.

gort69
04-25-2011, 11:05 AM
I would consider an adjustable prop valve in the rear brake line. This will serve you well with your rear drums and for your future rear discs.

Vicinity
04-25-2011, 01:49 PM
I bought the cheap adjustable one off eBay, from CPP. It's bronze, and it works great. I think it was $50? It's got the 2 inlets from the Master, 2 to the front brakes, and one to the rear, and you just Tee off from that line (get a Tee block or talk to Tobin, he sells a braided one).

If you're keeping drums, make sure you get the one for disc/drums.

zamora7
04-27-2011, 02:14 PM
I went with a Wilwood one, it has 1 in for front/rear 2 out for front and 1 out for rear since it looked like the closest thing to the stock one and didn't want to do too much plumbing and clutter things up.

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