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this diy sux cuz you arent telling where you can get these parts. what the **** is ep3? just say type r. where the **** am i suppose to find parts like those. junk yards, yeah right, all the parts from the junk yard around here are from the 80 cars. sorry your diy is not spelled out, the process is ok but the parts selection sux.
You do realize these parts won't be coming off of a TYPE R, right? These are coming off of an 02-03 Civic Si since most people are looking for just the 4-lug version. It's actually pretty easy to find these parts, go on EPHATCH.com "want to buy" section and start a thread of your own saying that you're looking for 02-03 Civic Si rear disc conversion. I tried that a long time ago and got so many responses of people wanting to sell their rear disc brake assemblies.
By the way, Boilermaker's DIY doesn't suck, I actually read through it once before doing my conversion. It's not hard to do, just takes some time to do it.
Oh cry me a river.
Do you need someone to hold your hand and take you in your stroller to find the parts for you? Boohoo.
Jeez, quit whining, get on the forums and find the damn parts.
No one else seems to have any trouble running down the parts they need to do this, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with the DIY. If you can't figure out how to undo 3 bolts a brake line and a snap clip, you've got no business working on the car at all. Period.
That was a nice reply! You are learning patience and compasion!
Oh cry me a river.
Do you need someone to hold your hand and take you in your stroller to find the parts for you? Boohoo.
Jeez, quit whining, get on the forums and find the damn parts.
No one else seems to have any trouble running down the parts they need to do this, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with the DIY. If you can't figure out how to undo 3 bolts a brake line and a snap clip, you've got no business working on the car at all. Period.
Great information. Thanks for the DIY. I'm going to do this conversion in the future when I get the money. I want to go from drums straight to high performance big brakes. Before I became a member of 7th gen, I did a bunch of my own research. This one e-mail was probably the most helpful. I thought I would post it and share the info:
Dear Turbo-Kits.com
I am interested in purchasing a Big Brake kit for my 2003 Honda CIvic
LX. The Big brake kit advertised on your website for the "01-05 civic";
will this kit work on my 03 LX? Additionally, I want to replace my rear
brake drums with after market rotors. Can this be done using this kit?
(I suppose I would have to purchase two kits, one for the front one for
the rear) Thank you for all of your help and consideration.
If you were looking to change the rear drums to rotors, you would have to
perform a rear disk conversion using OEM Honda parts (less the rotors and
calipers because they come in the kit for the rear). This could be done,
then you could get the big brake kit for the rear. The 01-05 civic brake kit
will work on your 03. Let me know if you have any further questions or would
like to order. Thanks!
I believe that there is no proportioning valve available for the LX's that will allow this disc conversion ( I think I read that earlier in this post). However, I was also speaking to my regular maintainence shop, and the technician there said that you can just replace the master slave assembly from the EX into the LX thus creating appropriate pressure levels to each corner. (Turns out that disc's require less pressure to operate then drums, or at least that's what he said.) That's what im going to do.
Civic minded old man/ low-loud-loven it!
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