[Al ALUCARD19]

Does anyone out there have any experience with the BAER PRO-PLUS 14" Mustang brake up grade kit. I am looking to install this kit on my car and would like any feedback pro or con to this brake install before I purchase it $1900.00 approx. looking forward to your responses.

 

[Guest]

i'm interested to hear some feedback on this kit as well. i've had my eye on this kit for months now. the only drawback i think is the slotted rotors. i would prefer slotted rotors b/c i do take mine to the track once every blue moon.. I hope you get some good responses

 

[sqidd]

Does anyone out there have any experience with the BAER PRO-PLUS 14" Mustang brake up grade kit. I am looking to install this kit on my car and would like any feedback pro or con to this brake install before I purchase it $1900.00 approx. looking forward to your responses.

Are you planning on taking this to the track?

Got a link to the brakes?

 

[Al ALUCARD19]

No track for me this is my daily driver mostly highway.

 

[Al ALUCARD19]

Here is a link for the brakes from BAER
Baer Brake Systems | Performance you can See! I hope this helps.

 

[06silverbullet]

i suggest he brembo kit frpp makes. basically its the same front brakes used on the gt500. you could also used gt500 pull of calipers and what not.

 

[vashthe3rd]

No track for me this is my daily driver mostly highway.

A daily on the highway that never sees a roadcourse.....
Why are you willing to dump that much money into an unnecessary brake upgrade when you could spend the money on getting closer to the power that barely warrants a rotor change.

Either way, buddy of mine got the 14" baer kit, loves them, really brings his 550whp back down to earth.

 

[sqidd]

Here is a link for the brakes from BAER
Baer Brake Systems | Performance you can See! I hope this helps.

That seems like an awful lot of “brakes” for the money, which makes me skeptical. I have been around everything from “modified OEM” to full blown “Factory Unobtanium” race parts for the past 14 years and for the most part I have found that you get what you pay for. I’ve ridden motorcycles with $3800 brake calipers (that’s per side:shocked. Are they better than the OEM calipers? Sure, but only if you are pushing 100% every time, all the time. Otherwise they just look cool sitting in the pits.

There is also point of diminishing returns with everything and the trick is to know where that point is so you don’t purchase either more than you need or spend a whole lot of money on a very small advantage. The flip side is knowing when to spend enough so you don’t come up short.

That kit seems to be priced very, very low for what is advertised. One of the first things I got for my car was the GT500 14” setup and I considered that a bare minimum for my level of maturity (low). Since then I have been checking out all the brake options out there with an eye toward running something quite a bit more aggressive in the future. One thing that has been very clear to me is that good brakes don’t come cheap, and $1900 is CHEAP. I am by no means saying that they are not worth $1900 but I certainly wouldn’t give them any more credit than being an average set of track day capable brakes…..if that. I’m only basing that on my impression of the available packages, their abilities and their pricing. I am not an athority on car brakes.

Are they good enough for a street car? They are probably MORE than good enough. Are they overkill for a street car? Almost certainly. Does the “Bling Factor” (nothing wrong with that) justify the price? That is in the eye of the beholder.

In my opinion the GT500 brakes are plenty for a hard driven street car. Mine have hauled me down from 175+mph on plenty of occasions and eat up repeated back road torture with barely a complaint. And I am still running the stock pads.

If one wants something that will stand up to the rigors of repeated FAST track abuse a $1900 set of brakes just won’t cut it.

Are they a cool set of brakes that will get the job done on a street car and look fantastic while doing it? Absolutely. Are they “Race Brakes”? I doubt it. They look like a nice set of street brakes that have all the right bling in all the right places.

It all comes down to what one wants/needs.

Someone else mentioned getting the GT500 setup and spending the saved money on something else. Unless you think that their looks are worth the difference in price that’s good advice. There is no shortage of other functional mods that you could get into with the money you would save. And if you need more than GT500 brakes on the street you had better be a professionally trained driver with lots of experience or get yourself to the track and keep it off the streets. My $.02

 

[Al ALUCARD19]

Thanks for the input Sqidd the frpp gt500 brake up-grade is another option even though this is a street car the mods are not done yet and track days will be upcoming so this brake up-grade is just a part of the complete package. :bigthumbsup

 

[908ssp]

I think that Baer system deserves some looking into for the serious user. There are a lot of factors that can contribute to the lower price not all of them mean that the quality has to suffer. European made products can easily cost $1000 more just by the fact of where they are made and Chinese made can be half the price of domestic. The Baer products claim the calipers are made in the USA that can mean lower prices than European pieces. They are made from extrusions cheaper than forging and possibly cheaper than billet since there is less machine time. And billet is an extrusion just in a larger nominal dimension instead of one already shaped like a caliper. The discs could be coming from China like most replacement discs these days. Anyway looking forward to reading more about them.

 

[Cusp]

What "big brakes" will fit behind OEM 18" wheels? Brembos only fit behind GT500 wheels. I wonder if the BAERs would fit.

 

[scord]

I'm going on 3 years on the exact same breaks, and for a big break kit, I thought it was the best buy for the money. I purchased mine from Shelby directly when they were having a sale 3 years ago, and have been working flawlessly ever sense... Only hick-up I had, is they shipped the wrong pads with the set. Having an automatic means I use the breaks heavily when I drive spirited around the hills. I’m still on my first set of pads... 60% wear in 20k miles. I'd recommend them to anyone who has the money. They stop my 20" shelby razors very quickly... more then you need on the street I would say.

P.S. when you buy from shelby the breaks have shelby on them instead of baer... if your into that sort of thing, I had no idea until I got them... oh well they match my rims I guess.:yelwacko:

For Refrence if you want to know what they look like installed:

 

[Al ALUCARD19]

I'm going on 3 years on the exact same breaks, and for a big break kit, I thought it was the best buy for the money. I purchased mine from Shelby directly when they were having a sale 3 years ago, and have been working flawlessly ever sense... Only hick-up I had, is they shipped the wrong pads with the set. Having an automatic means I use the breaks heavily when I drive spirited around the hills. I’m still on my first set of pads... 60% wear in 20k miles. I'd recommend them to anyone who has the money. They stop my 20" shelby razors very quickly... more then you need on the street I would say.

P.S. when you buy from shelby the breaks have shelby on them instead of baer... if your into that sort of thing, I had no idea until I got them... oh well they match my rims I guess.:yelwacko:

Thanks I know the shelby are the same as baer but the baer are 200.00 cheaper without the shelby name.

 

[scord]

Thanks I know the shelby are the same as baer but the baer are 200.00 cheaper without the shelby name.

Ahh i would get the baer's anyways then ! cheaper is always better when it has the same functionality & looks :yup: Again i paid 2200 shipped to my door for the fronts and backs 3 years ago... Gotta love sales!

 

[sqidd]

Anyway looking forward to reading more about them.

This was my main motivation for not “jumping in with both feet”. Some of the components could be great, some could be less than great. As a system it could work very well or it may turn out the rotors (I just picked a random part) can’t get the job done because of low quality and the buyer is looking at getting higher quality replacements right away. I’m not basing this on anything, just a concern based on a lack of real world on the ground feedback which we don’t have.

I would have a hard time spending $1900 on brakes that don’t have a track record (pun intended) opposed to spending $2900 on something that I know I can install and forget about.

 

[908ssp]

I'm going on 3 years on the exact same breaks, and for a big break kit, I thought it was the best buy for the money. I purchased mine from Shelby directly when they were having a sale 3 years ago, and have been working flawlessly ever sense... Only hick-up I had, is they shipped the wrong pads with the set. Having an automatic means I use the breaks heavily when I drive spirited around the hills. I’m still on my first set of pads... 60% wear in 20k miles. I'd recommend them to anyone who has the money. They stop my 20" shelby razors very quickly... more then you need on the street I would say.

P.S. when you buy from shelby the breaks have shelby on them instead of baer... if your into that sort of thing, I had no idea until I got them... oh well they match my rims I guess.:yelwacko:

For Refrence if you want to know what they look like installed:

Actuallythe brakes in your picture are not the brakes being discussed here. Yours are two piston what was being discussed was 6 piston.

 

[scord]

Actuallythe brakes in your picture are not the brakes being discussed here. Yours are two piston what was being discussed was 6 piston.

Good catch, didnt notice that, even more reason to get the 6 piston IMO, as with just my little 2piston breaks did wonders on the street for me. :smilie