Build Your Own Cobra Brake Kit
04-24-2010, 10:44 AM
#42
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: NC
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I would have just upgraded to this kit if I knew I would be out $300 trying to fix my stockers after the caliper went bad after a rotor/pad change. Then the overheating brake melted the bead on my tire so that then turned into 2 more tires totalling to a $700 dollar job. KB dyno money out the window.....oh well, will have to wait another month.
04-24-2010, 10:51 AM
#43
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Virginia
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I would have just upgraded to this kit if I knew I would be out $300 trying to fix my stockers after the caliper went bad after a rotor/pad change. Then the overheating brake melted the bead on my tire so that then turned into 2 more tires totalling to a $700 dollar job. KB dyno money out the window.....oh well, will have to wait another month.
(Later, I found out that it's a common issue for the stock break lines to wear out and collapse causing it to lock up the brakes. But **** it she wanted bigger brakes anyway, lol.)
04-24-2010, 03:28 PM
#44
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dallas
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Right after we bough my wifes 03 the calipers started locking up off and on. It started to really tick me off so I decided to just upgrade for the same reason.
(Later, I found out that it's a common issue for the stock break lines to wear out and collapse causing it to lock up the brakes. But **** it she wanted bigger brakes anyway, lol.)
(Later, I found out that it's a common issue for the stock break lines to wear out and collapse causing it to lock up the brakes. But **** it she wanted bigger brakes anyway, lol.)
04-27-2010, 12:11 PM
#49
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Pa
Posts: 1,267
That's my point.. the page is gone. BFR doesn't offer it anymore but a year ago, you could order a one part number kit which included everything for the front brakes. ie rotors, calipers, SS brake lines. The only other thing you have to add was the coarse threaded banjo bolt. Oh and you should add that to your link... cuz you will need those.
Buyfordracing did us a favor - it's now cheaper than the kit that they offered.
04-27-2010, 12:34 PM
#50
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: MN
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Well then we should clearly make that distinction because my cobra calipers did need the coarse threaded banjo bolts.