As for telling the difference, I couldn't really tell you, but for the cable/hydro tranny deal, the reason HASport makes mounts for the cable tranny is because that's what 4th gen civics use, otherwise you have to make the hydro system from scratch pretty much to be able to use a hydro tranny.
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