The Escort has a diagonally split system - front left and rear right brakes are on the same line.

This way, if one line leaks or breaks, you still have breaking on one front and one rear brake, which is safer.

However, this makes it harder to adjust the braking bias between front and back wheels.

So what I'm going to do, is run a line to the back for the rear brakes. In this line there will be a Wilwood brake bias valve (next to the handbrake) - this allows you to adjust the pressure getting to the rear calipers. There wont be anything else in the rear line - nothing at all. At the back the line will T off to left and right calipers.

The front I'm going to think about once I have the old stuff out - possibly keep the ABS, possibly change master cylinder and resevoir and drop the ABS...maybe one line for left, one to right, or just T off to them both from one line. I'll see how it pans out logistically.

Anyway, the plan is, to be able to control rear braking from within the car, and have no more brake sapping components like the rear arm bias adjusters. Also the shorter overall length of the system should increase brake feel.

Finding time to start seems to be my biggest problem