cbs latest on handbrakes?

[Chris Williams]

I am finishing up our SC/TD car and decided to put on a dual rear brake system. Using Wilwood's dual MC system, two separate lines to the rear and dual calipers. My thinking being that 3/4ths of the system is redundant. Protects against several common failure scenarios: leaking fitting, line rupture, FOD or failure at the caliper, etc. Yes, you can envision another set of failures that it still doesn't help: pedal disconnect, catastrophic MC failure, bracket failure, and since the lines run down the same frame rail, frame tube destruction. But it still seems worth the expense/effort.

As for the "too easy to lock it up", I'm just baffled. With sufficient pressure, you can lock up any brake system and get in trouble. The trick is to not push that hard... like you always do? In short, I'm at a loss as to where in the book of life it says "there's such a thing as too much brake capability". Especially at 180+.