My ride is a 02 GT convt. with 15000 miles on it, and I bought the 13" Baer Eradispeed rear rotor kit from Brothers. It went on easily enough, but the racket the things make is maddening. Anyone who ever put a clothes pin and playing card on their bicycles to make a ticking sound every time the spokes went by can imagine the sound these things create!

The racket is LOUD enough to be obnoxious even over a convertible's road noise with the top down, and even over my American Thunder exhaust! Only by cranking my 460 stereo near peak can I drown out the constant ticking at low speeds that gives way to an omnipresent tooth-vibrating high pitched scream at higher speeds!

I contacted Baer and they suggested I go back with the OE pads (I had hawk pads) - to no avail. The noise is every so slightly lessened by the softer OE pads, but no solution. Then I tried swapping the rotors (they were suppossed to be machine stamped R & L from the factory, but mine only had little white stickers, so maybe some comedian had swapped them at Brothers, who knows...) for a few test drives, but no, no joy there (put them back on the original sides). Now I'm out $260 plus 5 (count em) 5 rotor swaps only to end up with my original rotors on the car.

DO NOT do business with Baer. I'm saving my pennies for a full Cobra brake swap, and my experiment with aftermarket brakes is over.

Life to too short to put up with this nonsense!

tripleblack

 

I don't know if you read MM&FF, but one of the editorials this month was about why you should leave the race brakes on the race cars.

 

:iamwithst

Cross drilled or slotted brakes are not made to be quiet. I have them on the fronts and they are noisy, but it's what I expected, and I'm not concerned with noise as long as the part functions properly. Even the 2000 Cobra R didn't come with cross-drilled or slotted rotors.

 

That sux man.

 

Yeah, saw it - month after I bought the things.

tripleblack