brake caliper differences
 

today i found out the hard way that not all 96-00 civic brake calipers are the same. i have a spare 97civic 4dr that im fixing. the driver side front caliper was leaking on the bottom "piston". so i figured just replace with another and im set..$18/21 for one with pads from pull a wutevr and back to the house to find out, theyre not all the same at all!!
grabbed one from a 2dr, not sure what yr. but it turned out to have different piston setups and mount thickness. i noticed the piston setup first, because the used ones had 2 bolts, and mine had 1. whatevr, still went to install to find out that it doesnt even fit the 2dr has thicker mount brackets that wont even fit on the 4dr

ex and si models have bigger front brakes than lx,dx,cx and gx :guns:

they are not interchangeable :doobie:

oh.. the civic did have a y8, so i think it was a ex.. damn, you learn something new everyday. thats mine for the day... thanks cb

caliper on the left is lx,dx,cx,gx

caliper on the right is ex,si

i have a driver side caliper that will work if you need one :doobie: