Need help with brakes

superstang01

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Im looking at these remanufactured PBR mach 1 brakes.

4th and 5th brakes down on the page

04 2004 Ford Mustang Brake Caliper - Brake - PBR, World Brake Resources, A1 Cardone, Centric, Motorcraft, Front Right, Front Left, Rear Left, Rear Right - PartsGeek

Im just wondering if anyone has any experience with these? I need a set of new brakes and i wanna do the 13" brakes for as cheap as i can


Also, where can i buy the brake caliper brackets to mount the mach 1 style calipers onto my gt?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

sneaky98gt

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I looked into piecing the Cobra brakes like this as well. From the research I did, it seems that the reman calipers are just as good as new ones.

Also, the brackets are REALLY hard to get ahold of. I only found them at 2 places: the dealership (~$90 PER bracket ), or O'Reilly's. To get them from O'Reilly's, you have to get the ones for the 03-04 Cobra, found here, which will run about $170 for the set. The only thing about these is that they come with "COBRA" written in the side of them, which a lot of GT guys don't like.

 

superstang01

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yeah 90$ per bracket is a little steep!...but 66$ per caliper is a great price!

 

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How about this kit instead? 1994-04 Mustang Sve 13" Cobra Style Front Brake Kit at LRS - Same Day Shipping!. When you add it all up piecing a kit togeather will come close to if not over the price of the LRS kit. Especially when you consider the kit comes with SS lines by stop tech which BTW makes all the lines for MM. Just for calipers and brackets your looking at $300 so for another 250 you get pads, rotors and SS lines. To me its a no brainer.

 

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I'm so glad I bought my Mach 1 upgrade when I did. BFR sold the kit w/ the calipers, pads, brackets, and brembo rotors for only $250. I bought SS brake lines for another $60 and all in all spent just over $300 for everything. Installed them myself on a Sunday afternoon and I've been loving every minute of it since.

 

superstang01

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2003...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

would this kit bolt right up on my car?

 

Dark04GT

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superstang01 said:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2003...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

would this kit bolt right up on my car?

Click to expand...

It should. They don't say anything about the pads though so figure if they are still loaded in the calipers and that they will probably need replacing.

 

superstang01

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the parts guy at the ford dealer insists that the mach 1 and GT mustangs use the same caliper bracket.

I call BS on that

Is it true?