Some people find the 2011-2014 Mustang GT stock brakes to be adequate for their daily driving needs, but some of you want better than stock braking. If your Mustang GT has the optional Brembo Brakes, you can still upgrade them to work even better with a few simple excellent upgrades.
If the stock 2011-2014 Mustang brakes are just not good enough for you and want an easy brake upgrade that will make your Mustang stop on a dime, all you need to do is upgrade your brake pads and brake rotors with direct replacement high performance pieces. This is exactly what we did to our 2012 Mustang GT as we were not all that happy with the stock braking setup.
The first step to having better brakes for your Mustang GT, is to switch out your stock Mustang GT brake pads for better brake pads. You could simply just do this upgrade alone and have better than stock braking, or you can add another easy braking upgrade along with this as performance rotors, which will even more so enhance your stopping power. This next upgrade is to add four better than stock high performance brake rotors. Just switching from stock brake pads to performance brake pads is OK, but those brake pads need something better than your stock rotors to grab onto, which will assist greatly to bring your Mustang GT to a stop much faster.
There are a few direct replacement brake kits that give you new performance brake pads and rotors, such as kits by Power Stop, Hawk Performance, Ford Racing, Roush, Baer etc. Buying a kit will usually be more expensive than just buying upgraded performance brake pads and 4 new performance brake rotors separately. For our own 2012 Mustang GT we put on 4 new (front and rear) performance brake rotors DBA X-Gold Series Cross Drilled/Slotted Rotors. These rotors are true high quality and built to last. Along with these rotors we tried a few different performance brake pads such as Hawk Performance HPS Brake Pads, Hawk Performance Ceramic Brake Pads, Stop Tech Pads, but due to a few issues we did not like about these pads (too much brake dust or too much brake squeal/noise) we decided to go back and use new stock Mustang GT brake pads from Ford, as these pads were in our opinion all around just better for street use. The stock brake pads worked great along with the DBA X-Gold Series Cross Drilled/Slotted Rotors, made the car feel like we had race brakes, gave a huge improvement over the stock braking setup.
Our 2012 Mustang Easy Brake Upgrade List:
1- Added 4 new DBA X-Gold Series Cross Drilled/Slotted Rotors (American Muscle).
2- Added 4 new stock replacement Mustang GT brake pads (Ford).
3- Added 4 new stock direct replacement Mustang GT brake lines (Ford).
The main improvement in this braking upgrade was of course the DBA X-Gold Series Cross Drilled/Slotted Rotors which gave our Mustang GT about a 20% better braking performance. These rotors give a bigger initial bit to bring you to a stop much faster and they also have a special design which improves heat dissipation, meaning less brake fade.
If you are driving your Mustang GT at the track, you will want to use different brake pads than the stock ones such as a ceramic pad. These will usually make more noise as we found out, but they do stop harder with less fade. This upgrade we feel is best left to track only, it could get annoying in daily driving, but of course that is up to you to decide for yourself.
While the stock 2011-2014 Mustang GT brakes are ok, doing this very easy brake upgrade for your Mustang GT only takes a few hours and is well worth the effort, we think you will find this brake upgrade a good solid beneficial improvement for your Mustang GT.
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