I must say that the ‘Lego’ possibilities with Honda cars are fantastic ! I continue to play with my toys and move on the full front knuckles rebuild with big brakes installation. Here are the specs :
- OEM knuckles are swapped for knuckles out of a VTEC civic version.
- Calipers will be NISSIN 17CL15VN from a TYPE-R Integra
- OEM pads
- 282mm new EBC discs (Rover MG-ZR reference)
- New wheel bearings
- New extended ARP wheel studs
Swapping the knuckles was needed to have a bolt-on installation of the ITR calipers. Everything seems to be ok but I must say I’m a little bit worried with one thing : the extra-weight added with this new setup …
ARP studs and aluminium extended wheel nuts. I’ll go back very quickly to steel nuts as I don’t trust those one anymore !
… but after a big cleaning and piston removing, here we are : no rust at all inside ! Calipers will be rebuilt using brand new OEM Honda seal kits.
.. And my new set of shoes ! OZ ultraleggera, 15″ x 7″, less than 5 kilos for one raw wheel. And happy to be lucky.
Lucky because it was impossible for me to test wheel and ITR calipers clearance before buying the whole set.
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Hi there , the links to the picture are broken ? was interested in reading your write-up as I are planning to do something similar
cheers
grant
Hi, thanks for the information ! Some links seems to be broken due to a Domain name modification, I will solve this issue as soon as possible.
Hello,
I want to change the brakes of my 1997 del sol from actual 262mm rotors to bigger ones using ITR caliper 16CL15VN. As those are 23T parts I think that I can only install 23mm rotors or thinner but reading you article I see you installed MG ZR rotors that are 25mm thick and should not fit.
Can you please share how you did it ? did you rework the calipers or the rotors? Do the EBC rotors fit directly.
Thank you very much for your time ….. JOliveira
Hello ! Thanks for your comment. It’s been a while since I worked on the front brakes modifications, especially before the full floating NSX setup with BREMBO calipers. As far as I remember, I did NO MODIFICATIONS at all to fit both discs and calipers.
My calipers were 17CL15VN, fully rebuilt. EBC MG ZR rotors were installed bolt-on. The only thing that was not original was extended lug nuts on th hubs, but this has nothing to do with the brakes.
The only detail I have is that the brake pads were from TRW. Perheaps I tried to check at this time the pad thickness … some seems to be thinner than others.
But in the end, bolt-on for everything :). Just like a LEGO game as usual with Honda !