Not to bad for a 'waxer' am i?
Proportioning valve. If you get a metering valve with four wheel disc brakes you won't like it!
I can't recommend Fred's book enough. I think it is out of press but you can always find it on places like Amazon. It has every formula you need to design and and play with different components all on paper.
I have concidered whipping up a program based on the formulas. If I ever get some spare time and do so, I will make it available to everyone here at CC. As I recall, the math was within the capacity of the various spreadsheets packages. You could plug your numbers and specifications and out come everything you ever wanted to know (to be verified by testing of course!).
Any one know at what rate steel and aluminum transfers heat to air and fluids? Making the assumption that there is no air flow, or a minimum amount, I could even estimate max brake temperatures. This would be a even bigger leap but it is not hard to convert kenetic energy into temperature rise for the brake mass(the reason bigger brakes, all else being equal, are more resistant to fade)
Rick