When I bought my 98 EK (w/o abs) last year the owner told me that the front brakes (rotor, caliper, pads) had been swaped from an integra. Now im looking to replace the brakes with something more sutied for occansional track use and im not sure if the owner really swaped the brakes or was just blowing smoke up my ***.

About a month ago I installed stainless brakelines and ordered them for a 98 civic w/o abs they fit perfectly and I havn't had any problems. Thats what had me thinking that the calipers wern't from an integra, were there any integras w/o abs? If not is it possible to remove the abs sensor from each caliper?

Is there any way to identify integra brakes from civic brakes besides matching them to another set of integra calipers, rotors and pads?

Im planning on buying Brembo blanks with either project Mu Type-B pads or EBC yellow stuff and I don't want to order parts for a Civic when I need parts for an Integra or vise-versa. Im going to post in the Integra forum also.

 

measure them

 

That would work if I had a set of integra brakes AND a set of civic brakes...

 

no if u measure them and they are 9 inch rotors they are stock civic rotors if its not a 99-00si then they will be the same size as the integra which are 10 inch

 

Correct. The Civic brakes should have been 9.5" rotors while the Integra ones should be 10.3".

 

why do you want brembo blanks?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mage182 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Correct. The Civic brakes should have been 9.5" rotors while the Integra ones should be 10.3".</TD></TR></TABLE>
Ok I will measure them. Is it possible to fit an Integra caliper on a Civic rotor?

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They are cheap and I havn't heard anything but good things about them.

 

autozone rotors are cheaper and come with a warranty

 

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I can't say i've ever used autozone rotors, i'm quite sure we don't even have an autozone in canada, that said i have used cheap aftermarket rotors, they suck, yes they're cheap, but they don't last. Brembo on the other hand makes rotors for some pretty big car manufacturers, ferrari springs to mind. From what i've been hearing brembo makes rotors as good as or better than OEM rotors at cost thats lower than OEM, seems like a good deal to me. On another note warranty starts to get pretty meaningless afterwhile. If i buy something and it fails under warranty it means i have to take off the defective part, bring it back, possibly wait for a new part and then take time to put the new part on. thats time i could be spending on something else.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 94EG8 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

I can't say i've ever used autozone rotors, i'm quite sure we don't even have an autozone in canada, that said i have used cheap aftermarket rotors, they suck, yes they're cheap, but they don't last. Brembo on the other hand makes rotors for some pretty big car manufacturers, ferrari springs to mind. From what i've been hearing brembo makes rotors as good as or better than OEM rotors at cost thats lower than OEM, seems like a good deal to me. On another note warranty starts to get pretty meaningless afterwhile. If i buy something and it fails under warranty it means i have to take off the defective part, bring it back, possibly wait for a new part and then take time to put the new part on. thats time i could be spending on something else.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Couldn't have said it better

Ok just measured the rotors and they are 10". Thanks for the help on that.

So that means that my car has to have the kuckle off an integra inorder to run the larger teggy rotors and caliper. Right?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dynimitejack &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Ok just measured the rotors and they are 10". Thanks for the help on that.

So that means that my car has to have the kuckle off an integra inorder to run the larger teggy rotors and caliper. Right?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I think you can modify the stock knuckle to work, but its more likely that whoever did the swap just swapped the entire knuckle. To answer some questions further up, yes some integras were non abs. On those that were ABS i believe you can remove the sensors quite easily, my rear disc swap came from a car with ABS and the sensors were gone when i got them.

 

Now I just need to decide on a set of pads, The only ones I could find that were really suited for street and track driving are Project Mu Type B-Spec but I can't find them anywhere. The closest thing I can find are EBC Yellowstuff padsor Project Mu B-Force.

Any suggestions?