the ticking noise is probably your exhaust and or heat shields shrinking from cooling...?
the brake should not drift the car to one side. check pad thickness, if you have plenty of pad left do a 50mph to 20mph hard braking a few times to see if you can get rid of the gunk on the rotor. drive 5min or so to cool the brakes. if it persists get it checked.
for the steering lock disable, just do the fuse pull if you want clean, or just cut the brown wire. if my RevC goes out im just going to cut the wire when i put the original RevB back in.
top issue i dont know. im not good looking enough to drive a vert..
