Brake rotor change and upgrade

I've got slotted rotors from powerslot and they stay clean and silver shining. Never use anything to clean your rotors.

Just get the cobra brakes in the front. Get your rotors from powerstop/auto speicality. Everything shouldn't be more then $500 dollars. Big brakes is one of the best up grades you can do to the stang.

Leave the back brakes alone. You only use 20% in the back and 80% in the front. Remember you will need a 17 inch wheel but sometimes a 17 inch wheel may not clear it.

www.discbrakesrus.com $399 cobra front brake upgrade kit. Cadmium plated is just for rust protection. Up to you.

you don't need slotted rotors. All they will do is eat your pads up.

Thanx kappa I was just looking for a site to buy the up grade kit for the car.

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Check out the Spring 2004 issue of Car and Drivers BOOST magazine. I picked one up at Barnes & Noble last night. There's an article about installing bigger brakes. It states you can actually lengthen your stopping distance. It was something about the factory brakes are balanced between the front and rear to provide maximum braking from the point where you first apply pedal pressure, as you increase pedal pressure, to the point where you actually stop with max pressure. When you put larger brakes, the more effective front brakes hit their peak performance and slow the car down before the rear brakes get there. So, though it feels like the car is stopping better, you end up using mostly your front brakes and not much of the rear. In effect, you decellerate quick initially, but the overall stopping distances are longer.

Reader's Digest version: Original brakes are designed to balance pressure between the front and rear. Upgraded brakes will make the front do all the work.

Find the magazine and read it. I'm sure I did a bad job at paraphrasing it.