Andrew
Whilst I shudder at the thought of what you improvements to your 410 are costing you I do think that an upgrade to ventilated discs at the front is a must if you are thinking of touring in any even vaguely mountainous part of the world.
The standard set up is excellent in one sense in that while a 410 will put out stop almost anything on the road today, once, including modern BMWs (I recall a very surprised BMW when everything came to a sudden stop on that dreadful motorway around the top of Milan) there is a catch in that there is nowhere for the heat to go and repeated application of the brakes will rapidly result in the them rapidly fading away to nothing.
I always found myself having to nurse the brakes when dropping down a mere 650 feet over two and a half miles down a local lane at 20 mph max due to the lack of visibility and passing places.
I ended up having a slightly alarming and humbling experience on an alpine tour. Humbling in that I was reduced to crawling down the longer passes with the transmission in 1st and was being passed by bicycles. One rider even had his feet on the handlebars.
I much commend ventilated front discs, I used SLJ.
Ill health then intervened and the subsequent custodian has gone one further and has fitted ventilated Jaguar wheels.
Oh, by the way, don’t believe the hype about the 410s dual systems. They are connected by a balance bar and if the front brakes fade the pedal will just go to the floor without having any effect whatever on the rears. (This very over hyped feature was one also shared by the E type Jaguars)
My regards
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