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I'm interested in replacing my rear cross-drilled rotors with the Baer Eradispeed. The cross-drilled came with the car when I bought it last year. Before I buy, I just wanted some opinions on the Eradispeed.
TIA,
Ken
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Is it the stock braking system? You probably need to have Baer calipers to use baer rotors!
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I wouldn't do it for performance reasons unless you have hundreds of dollars burning a hole in your pocket in search of the last hundredth of acceleration or the last foot of braking.
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On their website, the Eradispeed is suppose to be an oem replacement.
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Someone brought this up a couple years ago. They said they weren't planning on making any for the Tour though. They are OEM replacements.
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Originally posted by todras:
Someone brought this up a couple years ago. They said they weren't planning on making any for the Tour though. They are OEM replacements.
On Baer's current website, as listed below, the Eradispeed is supposedly available for the contour.
Ford/Mercury
1995> Contour/Cougar
2000> Focus
I'll contact Baer to confirm though.
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Originally posted by MFE:
I wouldn't do it for performance reasons unless you have hundreds of dollars burning a hole in your pocket in search of the last hundredth of acceleration or the last foot of braking.
MFE knows what he's talking about. 
The only reason to put x-drilled, slotted, gold plated, diamond studded, 20" rotors in the back are if:
A) You simply must spend you money on something cos you crapped out a bag of $100 bills this morning.
B) You've got upgraded calipers and rotors up front (read: bigger) and you want to upsize the caliper and rotor on the rear also.
UNDERSTAND THIS PEOPLE, the frikkin stock brakes are so heavily biased to the front that you would be HARD PRESSED to notice any difference in upgrading the back rotors or pads to anything but a good set of OEM's with decent pads.
I challenge anyone with STOCK SIZED rotors to a stopping contest. You with you "kitchen-sink" rotors and pads vs. me and my Autospecialty Rotors and Bendix Titanium pads. On the street at sane speeds we'll stop within inches of each other. On the track you may fade later than me, but not by much. At least when my brakes fail it'll be cheap to replace, meanwhiile you'll be crying cos you just wasted $$$$.
If you gain 6" of braking with these whizz-bang rear rotors, I'd eat my shoe. 
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Thanks for all the feedback in regards to the rotors.
I agree with MFE and Stazi in regards to the cross-drilled rotors. I, too, feel that it is not required for street use. I guess I didn't provide enough information on the original post. I bought the car last year from a Ford dealership. The original owner had already installed cross-drilled rotors on the car. Now the back rotors are sqealing when the brakes are applied. The Ford dealership advise that I need new rear rotors since cross-drilled rotors cannot be machined. The rear pads are fine. There is lots of pad lining left. The front rotors and pads are in good shape as well.
My dilemma is do I replace the rear cross-drilled rotors with:
1) another cross-drilled
2) install normal rotors at the back and leave the front cross-drilled rotors as is (which does not look good cosmetically) or
3) replace all four with normal rotors(which I cannot afford right now)
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Just put normal rotors out back.
If you want. I'll send you a set of new Autospecialty rotors for $55 shipped.
PM Me if you're interested
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Gutted pre-cats $80/set
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I would replace anything that is working properly. SO just swap out the rear to blanks or maybe the EBC's that Terry sells. But Stazi and MFE are right, cross-drilled rotors on the front isn't going to gain you much if anything. And, on the rear you would just be burning money.
I have X-drille don the front that I got for a really good deal. $80 each. I wouldn't buy them again.
-Andy
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The problem with America is stupidity.
I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment
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