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I was thinking can the cobras brakes fit on the contour svts?
I did a seach and found this.
"I was speaking with Stazi and were thinking of coming up with our own version of a Baer kit. He explained to me that that Baer brakes are just Cobra calipers with a different bracket. He said if he could get a hold of a baer bracket he could copy it and make it at his work. Both he and I can get realy good deals on Ford parts."
did anything ever happen with making this bracket??
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ummmm...besides the fact that Cobras have 5 lugs or....? It would probably be cheaper to go with BAERs and more reliable (warranty...) than to make your own CUSTOM brake kit this way....
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The wheels are five lug, but that doesn't mean the calipers wouldn't fit a larger 4 lug rotor. Still, it all depends on the price even if they do fit.
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Originally posted by warmonger:
The wheels are five lug, but that doesn't mean the calipers wouldn't fit a larger 4 lug rotor. Still, it all depends on the price even if they do fit.
The Euro Focus RS uses the same rotor blank as the current mustang cobra, only it is drilled for the 4x108mm pattern.
That said, I would be willing to bet it is still cheaper to go with a Baer kit, plus significantly less hassle.
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Originally posted by JonnySVT:
ummmm...besides the fact that Cobras have 5 lugs or....? It would probably be cheaper to go with BAERs and more reliable (warranty...) than to make your own CUSTOM brake kit this way....
I know Baers make a kit with that is reliable and has a warranty... I can get the cobra calipers and rotors for almost nothing, so my question was, did anything ever happen with making this bracket??
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Originally posted by BlackE1:
Originally posted by JonnySVT:
ummmm...besides the fact that Cobras have 5 lugs or....? It would probably be cheaper to go with BAERs and more reliable (warranty...) than to make your own CUSTOM brake kit this way....
I know Baers make a kit with that is reliable and has a warranty... I can get the cobra calipers and rotors for almost nothing, so my question was, did anything ever happen with making this bracket??
you can get the cobra calipers and rotors for almost nothing, which is cool, but the rotors wont fit.....they are talking costs of having the mounts made, plus whether or not the mounts work and for how long, and if you want to use those focus rs rotors, you gotta buy em and ship em across the pond.....
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id be very interested in this also because i have some 96 cobra brakes sitting in my garage......ill tell you right now that rotor is friggin huge 
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Let's put it this way, I've got a spare set of Cobra brakes (actually, will shortly) and the brake engineering experience, and I would still go for the Baer kit if I weren't doing the FSVT brakes on my car already.
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Originally posted by BlackE1:
I was thinking can the cobras brakes fit on the contour svts?
I did a seach and found this.
"I was speaking with Stazi and were thinking of coming up with our own version of a Baer kit. He explained to me that that Baer brakes are just Cobra calipers with a different bracket. He said if he could get a hold of a baer bracket he could copy it and make it at his work. Both he and I can get realy good deals on Ford parts."
did anything ever happen with making this bracket??
if your talkinng about the current cobra how can the brakes be the same as the baer kit?the cobra brakes are made by brembo.
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Originally posted by tsSVT:
Originally posted by BlackE1:
I was thinking can the cobras brakes fit on the contour svts?
I did a seach and found this.
"I was speaking with Stazi and were thinking of coming up with our own version of a Baer kit. He explained to me that that Baer brakes are just Cobra calipers with a different bracket. He said if he could get a hold of a baer bracket he could copy it and make it at his work. Both he and I can get realy good deals on Ford parts."
did anything ever happen with making this bracket??
if your talkinng about the current cobra how can the brakes be the same as the baer kit?the cobra brakes are made by brembo.
Close, but not quite. The current Cobra uses rotors made by Brembo, and calipers from an australian company called PBR. Of note is that the current Mustang GT also uses calipers from PBR, except they are aluminum vs. the cast iron of the Cobra calipers. If I were to go through all that trouble to make a custom setup, I would probably find a way to use the aluminum GT calipers, but that's just me. Even still I would probably go for a complete kit from Baer or TCE or whoever over putting together my own deal for a contour. It will be cheaper in the long run, and much easier.
Of course, there will be some that will say "but I want to do my own just for the experience, I don't care if it costs more" well, fine, by all means, but I think if I were in that boat, I'd go for a whole lot more than the Cobra calipers, maybe some large brembo 4 or 6 piston fixed calipers, maybe some 14" two piece rotors, you know, the crazy big stuff.
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