Scarebird front disc swap-my experience

Well, the swap is done, and it was an experience to say the least. First the good. The parts that Mark at Scarebird provided were well made and fit perfectly. His directions were pretty good, and once on they worked as advertised and the car finally stops straight and sure. Now the bad...
The first problem was getting the studs out of the old drum/hub assembly. Nobody around here has a knurl swedge cutter anymore, so I had them pressed out. I had bought some Dorman lug studs that are the proper 7/16 X 20 thread that were a little longer than the stock studs and had 2/100ths bigger diameter on the knurled portion of the stud. They literally FELL into the holes instead of pressing or beating in. I don't know whether the problem was poor quality control on the Chinese made Dorman product or the pressing out of the old studs enlarging the holes. Anyway, I bolted the hubs up to the wheels and tack-welded the damn things to make sure they stay put. I had my machine shop press the adapters onto my hubs, they were a very good press fit. I wouldn't have wanted to peck them on with a hammer for fear of messing them up, they're pretty mild steel. Then the rebuilt master cylinder I bought leaked out the piston like a squirt gun when I tried to bench bleed it. I took it back, they tried to get me to take a rebuild kit and do it myself. I was not amused. Seems old Juan in Mexico who supposedly rebuilt the cylinder didn't do a good job on it. Two days later I got a replacement that was evidently rebuilt by Jesus or Manuel, since it didn't leak. Gotta love that cheap Mexican labor. The Caddy hoses and Celebrity calipers and rotors worked just as advertised, I did have to file down the spindle bosses for clearance, but it was only a couple of eighths or so of material that had to be removed, I did it with a big flat file. I had also thought that since I was there anyway I would replace the wheel bearings. I had my choice, bearings made in China or bearings made in Romania. I chose Romanian bearings hoping that old ex-communists make better bearings than current communists. Once it was all bolted on I started to bleed the brakes. Of course I broke a bleeder screw on the right rear wheel cylinder. I called and lo and behold the local discount parts store had one in stock. I ran right down there and picked up my $9.00 Chinese wheel cylinder and took it home. Took off the drum and had a look. Wrong @#$% wheel cylinder. I took the old one off and took it with me when I went back. Turns out that their computer had mixed up the part numbers for the 9 inch brake cylinder and the 10 inch brake cylinder. I have 10 inch brakes on the rear. Once I got it all bolted up and bled out I took it for a test drive and did my 30 slow stops from 30 mph to seat the brakes in. They stopped straight and true, I could even take my hand off the wheel while stopping without pulling to one side. I will admit that I tried to get by without changing the proportioning valve, I wanted to see what difference it would make. I did a panic stop just for fun, and sure enought the rear wheels locked before the fronts and the car wants to get sideways. Looks like I'll be plumbing in an adjustable valve soon. Also, it requires noticably more pedal pressure with the disc brakes than it did with the drum brakes. Not too bad, but definately more. Maybe I'll put power brakes on someday. All in all, for the money I spent I'm pretty pleased with the conversion, and once I get an adjustable valve plumbed in and adjusted it will be better than great. And that, friends and neighbors is my rather long-winded .02.