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By installing an "adjustable" proportioning valve in the front of a mid-engine car car with rear weight bias will make it possible for you to adjust it to optimize braking force of front and rear wheels, therefore optimizing the braking system.

You can adjust it to exactly your driving taste. In my case, after initial installation and adjustment I continued to fine-tune it ever so slightly over about a thousand miles of driving in various conditions. It was a fun thing to do, improving brake performance it is the best thing that I ever did to my car, by far.

Sliding forward with your front brakes locked in a panic stop toward disaster hoping that the car will somehow stop will never happen to me again.
It only happened twice and fortunately I and my car survived.

Modulating your brakes is something that you can do if you are a very skilful and experienced driver in the subject car. Brake lock-up is a rare and unusual situation, consequently the experience of learning how to do efficient modulation is not presented very often, so it requires offline practice.

Most of our cars are also not driven daily on a yearly basis, therefore as skilled as we might think we are we do not have much chance to learn the optimum brake modulation technique required to avoid trajedy that will not only destroy our car but also our lives. You can still modulate your braking with a proportioning valve installed but you will start at a much better place that saves time.

I equate the skill required for brake modulation with getting a great start off the line with a powerful car in first gear. We can practice and practice and get really good at it, but neglect to do it on a daily basis and you will loose the skill.

DICK RUZZIN