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One of the top upgrades we’re asked questions about every month is braking. How to get the car to stop better? What brake kit do I use? Should I go four-wheel-disc or just upgrade the front? And so on. One question, however, we don’t get asked much is whether an owner should keep the manual brakes or go to power. It seems the majority of the questions center on what to do at the wheels and not so much under the hood. While it’s a given that anything you can do to make your brakes more effective and your classic safer on today’s roads is good, more often than not we see a dual reservoir manual brake system when a hood is opened. We applaud the dual-reservoir upgrade in the name of safety, however, we feel a lot is being left on the table by not having some sort of assist system backing that master cylinder up.

Photo Gallery: Hydraulic Brake Assist System Install – Just Stop It! – Modified Mustangs & Fords Magazine

Photo Gallery: Hydraulic Brake Assist System Install – Just Stop It! – Modified Mustangs & Fords Magazine

Photo Gallery: Trick Flow Heads, Cam, Intake Upgrade – Tips and Tricks – Modified Mustangs & Fords Magazine

The typical four-stroke engine is made up of hundreds of parts. These parts are all designed and engineered to work together to make a prescribed amount of power, torque, engine longevity, and other parameters for the engine’s design (or more accurately what management has told the engineers it needs to do for a specific cost). As long as these parameters are kept in check, the engine will provide the horsepower, torque, longevity, et al, it was designed for. However, if you begin to make changes to that internal combustion engine, be it a camshaft upgrade, new high-flow cylinder heads, or any number of hard part upgrades, you have effectively changed that engine’s engineered design and steps need to be taken to ensure that the new parts are engineered to work with the other new or existing parts of the engine.

Photo Gallery: Rocker Arms and Adjustable Valvetrain Geometry – Modified Mustangs & Fords Magazine

Photo Gallery: Rocker Arms and Adjustable Valvetrain Geometry – Modified Mustangs & Fords Magazine