Are OEM supplied Brembo calipers 'universal'?

Hi all, What I mean is assuming you get the matching diameter, are the calipers universal between from-the-auto-manufacture supplied ones and what you buy from brembo? When you go to brembo's site, they show kits with calipers, pads, rotors, and mounting adapters. My bmw comes with floating rotors, but also sliding calipers. I think they sell their upgrade kit for lots of $$$$$. If I could purchase calipers from ebay that were taken off a Porsche, or some other wrecked car, would they mate up with bmw's adapters or would brembo sell the adapter from their kit? I'd love to go fixed/multi-piston

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Bracket to mount Porsche calipers on BMW

Wow, canoe within a thread itself. That's new.

Interesting. (Not the canoes) I have a pair of Brembo calipers off an Acura TL at home...

I believe for the most part they are universal as in Brembo will use the same caliper for many fitments, but they do manufacture a bunch of diff calipers.

When the 1st gen CTS-V caliper swap became popular for the Fbody guy, it was found that they were a brembo caliper, and that they were used on many different fitments may times just painted differently. I believe one of the other fitments was a Evo of some sort and I remember reading about a few other fitments the calipers were used on.

I know Evo calipers are used on a wide variety of cars. In fact there is a site that sells it as a "brake kit" with all the hardware you need for a vairety of Nissans for example.

http://www.ao-ps.com/brakes.php

ddavidv wrote: Wow, canoe within a thread itself. That's new.

we get those on a regular bases … just report them and they will quietly disappear

Pads are often interchangeable between calipers of the same number of pistons. The calipers do not.

My 4-pot Brembos are OEM Ford pieces from a GT500/BOSS. They directly bolt to my stock factory hardware and lines. There's no way in heck they'd directly bot up to a civic.

Or am I misunderstanding the question here?

Sky_Render wrote: Pads are often interchangeable between calipers of the same number of pistons. The calipers do not. My 4-pot Brembos are OEM Ford pieces from a GT500/BOSS. They directly bolt to my stock factory hardware and lines. There's no way in heck they'd directly bot up to a civic. Or am I misunderstanding the question here?

I think so.

He's asking if the Brembo's on the BOSS, for instance, are the same as what comes on the EVO or the STi (this is what I got from it at least).

I'm sure the answer is no.

There's a brembo 4 piston caliper from the 840ci that bolts right up to e34 5 series, e30 m3(5 lug), e32, e24, e28. Have them on '95 540; they work well and there is a good selection of Hawk pads.

Sky_Render wrote: Pads are often interchangeable between calipers of the same number of pistons. The calipers do not. My 4-pot Brembos are OEM Ford pieces from a GT500/BOSS. They directly bolt to my stock factory hardware and lines. There's no way in heck they'd directly bot up to a civic. Or am I misunderstanding the question here?

I think he's asking if all of the calipers are the same but with marque-specific caliper brackets, or if the calipers themselves are different. I'd be interested to know myself.

SlickDizzy wrote:

Sky_Render wrote: Pads are often interchangeable between calipers of the same number of pistons. The calipers do not. My 4-pot Brembos are OEM Ford pieces from a GT500/BOSS. They directly bolt to my stock factory hardware and lines. There's no way in heck they'd directly bot up to a civic. Or am I misunderstanding the question here?

I think he's asking if all of the calipers are the same but with marque-specific caliper brackets, or if the calipers themselves are different. I'd be interested to know myself.

I'm betting no just based on different piston sizes alone.

I know a lot of the pads are the same. However, there is no way in heck the Brembos on my Mustang will swap with the Brembos on a Subaru.

I'll venture that some calipers may fit more than one car, but certainly not "one size fits all". The Brembos on a Range Rover are HUGE.