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I don't know that any of them are comletely painless.

The first thing to know is that there are really only two or three different kits, offered by many different venders.

Read the descriptions carefully and you'll begin to see the differences and similarities.

The calipers and rotors used are one of the things that distinguish different kits. Your past experience with the vender might be more important than the differences between the kits.

Reading as much as possible about the conversion beforehand is probably as important as the kit. Understanding the kind of obstacles you're likely to encounter and seeing where others had challenges with the kits will forearm you to overcome the pains they have encountered in this swap.

If you search here and read what others have said you may also decide that some things are important to you that were not to others, and that one feature of a given kit may be the reason you'd choose it over the others.

I'd suggest you plan to convert to a dual master and completely replumb your brakes at the same time. That isn't a painless operation, but it does eliminate some of the problems others have had with disk conversions.