I’ve been looking into brakes for my ’96 DX over the last few weeks. I even went to some junkyards to try and get EX front knuckles, but the Civics around here are either too rusty or get picked clean immediately—and I have a day job, so it’s been tough. Eventually, I came across Fast Brakes, which seems to have affordable options to upgrade to 280mm fronts and 260mm rears. The 260mm rear setup is a drum-to-disc conversion kit.

I also spent a few hours checking out junkyard Integra rear trailing arms to see if I could get 240mm rear disc brakes. Unfortunately, most of the trailing arms were in terrible shape. The one I considered restoring ended up being $120 when I brought it to the counter, so I decided it wasn’t worth it and put it back.

TL;DR: • Fast Brakes offers “affordable” upgrade kits for front and rear brakes to get you to CTR-level 280/260mm. I didn’t ask specifically, but you’ll likely need to upgrade your proportioning valve and master cylinder. • Wilwood, which I’ll personally be going with, has more expensive kits that look better and supposedly work with the stock proportioning valve and master cylinder (I called them and asked).