I did mull about this Ian - there's little research that has been done to quantify precisely the improvement in brakes. As usual, I have done a search of research just as a check. There's really not very much - only one paper (which I can't access the tables for) which compares different brake types. And there's this:
https://www.sensorprod.com/news/white-papers/2010-03_ctb/wp_ctb-2010-03.pdf
....which has an interesting table of relative force depending on disc diameter. A very significant rise in % terms for the move from 160 to 200.
There are many mentions in articles of 'research which shows disc brakes to be superior' and almost no well-designed research to be found. Odd. I have used almost every type of brake, and know that U brake, roller cam, cantilever and v brakes all vary massively in performance according to set up and lad material. From that experience, for an AMP I would place the following hierarchy:
1 = worst, ascending = better.
1 = AMP disc brake
2 = cantilever
3 = V brake
4 = modern disc brake
this discussion corroborates that:
https://www.mtbr.com/threads/i-just-put-iso-mount-disc-brakes-on-my-old-amp-fork.282881/
The thing about the V brake placement is that this is way up the AMP fork leg, towards the steer tube and crown - compared with the disc brake, which acts through the hub flange. Initially I thought that this would place less stress on the fork and mean less fork flex, since the brake is applying its force closer to the crown. A moment's thought makes it clear that this is very complex, since the braking force might be applied nearer to the crown, but has to act through the interaction of the tyre with the road surface. The pulls the crown forward and the lower part of the fork leg backwards. Applying the braking force lower in the fork actually leads to less distance between the opposing forces, but you still have the big mass of the rider and bike acting through the system....bending the fork. The essential fact remains...AMP forks are terrifyingly flexible. I remember getting maybe 4cm (!!!!) of flex at the front dropout when really hooning on the brake on a downhill. That's scary. I mean, modern 36mm forks don't flex at all...right? Wrong.
Blimey. So if I can SEE the AMP fork moving 4cm using V brakes.....gulp.
And aluminium is not exactly good at going through stress cycles.....more gulp.
And with the general consensus and empirical evidence being that modern discs are a hell of a lot more powerful than V brakes - skip to 9:30
Then putting even a 160 on an AMP fork is going to push a hell of a lot more energy through the forks. Personally, with that flexing being seared in my mind means - no way would I put a modern disc brake on an AMP fork.
Just out of interest....
This pair are a bit extreme in pushing modern brakes...
and this is an interesting vid too...