Troy Trepanier’s Rad Rides By Troy uses Baer brakes on his wicked creations.

After forty-three years in business, Baer Brakes has a pretty good handle on what it takes to stop a vehicle quickly, safely, and with a minimum of muss and fuss. From day one the Baer team has been heavily involved in racing and performance, and their improvements in street-going performance vehicles was conceived through their racing operations. In most cases, OEM braking systems are designed for the average consumer, but enthusiasts need more capability from their stoppers, and Baer has been providing those solutions for many different vehicle makes and models.

The Ring Brothers’ killer machines wouldn’t be complete without Baer’s big-binder kits.

In fact, Baer Brakes are used by more than just the enthusiast – they are used by many of the world’s leading custom car builders and race teams. We were checking out their Facebook page and realized that it appears to be a virtual ‘who’s who’ of all the names you hear about from SEMA and PRI. Custom car builders and racers like the Ring Brothers, Chip Foose, Schwartz Performance, Goolsby Customs, Holcomb Motorsports, and Kenny Brown all use Baer brakes.

But that’s not all – the television show Overhaulin’, Rad Rides by Troy, Fesler Built, Lakeside Rods, Year One, Chimera Customs, and even truck specialists SamCo Fabrication use Baer components on their machines. You might be wondering, since we’ve dropped all of these names on you, exactly what the companies and race teams see that makes Baer’s equipment so special. 

Baer offers a number of different braking systems that are tailored to the particular vehicle that they are designed for – no cookie-cutter kits here. They offer applications for many of the current and recently-defunct American nameplates like Buick, Pontiac, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Ford, Plymouth, and even imported machines like Subaru, Infiniti, Nissan, and Scion. 

Year One used a set of Baer brakes on their awesome Trans Am project.

Each of the seven different styles of Baer brake systems, whether it be their SS4+ system that’s designed for older-car restomods and even allows the use of a 15-inch wheel, all the way up to their Extreme+ kits that are designed around a forged, 2618 aluminum alloy monoblock caliper and monster 14-inch, two-piece rotors, uses the same set of engineers behind the scenes in the development of said kits. 

All of Baer’s brake calipers are machined from extruded or forged aluminum and are manufactured 100-percent in-house in their Phoenix, Arizona facility. Each system features directionally-vaned rotors, which help the brake system to act like the heat-sink it needs to be in order to dissipate the immense heat caused during a track day or autocross.

All caliper pistons are constructed of stainless steel, which helps to act as a heat barrier from the caliper to the brake fluid, preventing thermal transfer of heat from the caliper/rotor assembly into the brake fluid. There are many other features designed into braking system from Baer; it’s not just a set of calipers, rotors, and pads, but decades of experience earned under the toughest racing conditions that sets them apart from the competition. Be sure to check out Baer Brakes when you need to stop in a hurry!