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Hi Hoppy:
The ERA's brakes do require the same amount of pedal effort as the original 427 S/C... translated... 95 pounds of foot pressure.

Now, consider this... the typical modern daily driver only requires one half that or less to LOCK up the brakes or actuate the ABS.

Translated... the ERA non power assisted raw brakes are acting NORMAL for period correctness. This is the first thing that Peter at ERA and Bob Putnam and others will tell you as a new ERA owner. Now changing over to harder RACING PADS will actually make the situation WORSE. You want soft pads that grab without needed to be heated up this allows the normal pads to be efficient cold vs racing pads which are efficient when hot.

I had a nice long discussion with one of ERA's head mechanics, Doug. He is a wealth of knowledge on this aspect. He informed me that even with the ERA big brake kit, the pedal effort is the same.

So, you need to realize that the car requires more LEG effort on the brake pedal in order to stop.

This leg effort was a GREAT BIG thing to get used to along with the massive power of the Cobra.

Now, I am sure all of this info I am sharing is simultaneously comforting and dissapointing to you. The good news is that over a relativly short period of time your leg will learn via latent knowledge that it needs to put more effort into the brake pedal (and likewise less effort into the gas pedal (ha Ha)).