The great Brake Debate - Recycled - "Which is better?"

I say do it right the first time whatever you do. I really don't think 14" in front and 13" out back will be completey necessary unless this is a road course dedicated car. The Cobra R kit should be sufficient or the Baer Big Brake Kit

my answer to your post on the other thread


well in reality if i had to do it all over i wouldve gotten a fox-body and make it an all out track car.

im currently upset at my setup after my last open track session. stopped great, no fade, i actually was able to outbrake a 2000 Cobra R into a corner, im assuming i was lighter or he was just being careful. i still have the stock pads that are from Galpher and the Motorcraft/Valeo rear pads. they pull the car down, but they have no initial bite anymore. i can modulate them no problem, i am completely disgusted with Ford's pedal placement, i have to get my foot all out of wack to heel-toe. hell i can heel-toe stock hondas and toyota better than i can my mustang.

another issue i had was heat. my last session maybe 10 laps at Buttonwillow the brakes got to 1300degrees. i have no cooling mods, but just ordered a kit off of a guy on SVTP that looks very high quality.

i am trying different pad combos to find what i like. i got the Hawk HPS for street and am looking at Porterfield or Carbotech for track pads. the nice thing about the 00R setup is when you order pads and there is no listing for a 00R, just look up a dodge viper. also rotor replacement is easy because it uses the 94-04 cobra factory rotors. also pad swaps on the front take a matter of minutes. you just pop out the pins, pull out the pads, push the pistons back, drop in new pads and put the pins in.

the nice thing about the willwood setup si that they replace the caliper actuated parking brake with a drum in disc parking brake. ive spaced before when parking in the pit area and yanked up on the e-brake, then had the pads almost melt onto the rotor.