[hondaholic]

Hey guys! I really, really would like to have a 4 wheel Brembo rotor/caliper set-up. Could someone lend some insight please? I have 16" Work Emotion wheels. I am willing to change knuckes or whatever to make the switch. Thanks in advance.

 

[SETI20]

First question: why?

 

[hondaholic]

I want pretty calipers under my wheels.

 

[SETI20]

Then either get a set of new calipers and have them painted, or look into another brand.
The brembo ones are really high maintenance, really expensive, and require extensive modifications.

AEM has some blinging big brake upgrades.
Not really very good...but they look nice.

 

[hondaholic]

It has to work as good as it looks. Painting cast parts looks lame. I couldn't find any brake system on the AEM site. I only see pads. I of course could be missing something.

 

[tubafreak]

Start by switching to EX knuckles, then look for brakes for those. If you don't like the look of painted cast metal, sand it smooth until it looks polished. It'll take forever, but it should look sweet.

 

[hondaholic]

So if I switch to EX knuckes (front and rear) I can now source a brake kit for that car? Is this right? Sorry to sound stupid, what year EX?

There is no way I will have the time to polish cast calipers.

 

[tubafreak]

90-91 I believe. Just the front knuckles, the rears are a trailing arm setup. Check fastbrakes.com for a bunch of different brake kits. You might look in to Wilwood brakes, we use them on the Baja Car (see my avatar) and they've held up to all the crap we've done to them (lots of stuff, they work completely submerged in water, long story on that one), not sure if they have a civic application though.

I've read on here about using NSX brakes on a CRX, you might look in to doing that conversion and using NSX aftermarket brakes, they'd certainly be showy enough for you.

 

[SETI20]

AEM, BAER, Stoptech, and several other brands make wildly colored calipers.

However, most calipers like Wilwood are black.
An interesting rule of thumb is that the best performance parts are fairly inconspicuous.