XYZ Racing Hollow Front Brake Kit — Volvo 240 (1974-1993)

The Volvo 240’s real dynamic limitation was never the chassis, it was the modest single-piston front calipers asked to slow a heavy, cast-iron-nosed saloon from speed time and again. Owners building these cars for track days, retro drift duty or just confident fast-road use hit the same wall: the brakes give up long before the rest of the car does.

This XYZ Racing Hollow Front Brake Kit for the Volvo 240 is the answer to that. Supplied as a matched pair of left and right front corners, it replaces the tired factory front setup with a bigger, stiffer caliper and two-piece floating disc package designed to take repeated hard stops without the soft, fading pedal the standard system delivers once it gets hot.

What this brake kit does for your 1974-1993 Volvo 240

After fitting, the first thing you feel is a firmer, more progressive pedal with bite that arrives early and stays consistent. The larger swept area gives the front axle far more thermal headroom, so stops three and four feel like stop one rather than a vague, lengthening travel. The two-piece floating disc and its hollow-vane casting move heat away faster while trimming rotating mass. Because the kit is offered with three pad compounds, Street, Sport and Racing, you can match the bite and heat tolerance to how the car is actually used, from quiet daily commuting to repeated braking zones on circuit. On a nose-heavy 240 that runs most of its braking load through the front wheels, that extra front capacity is exactly where the upgrade pays off.

About the Hollow Front Brake Kit

The Hollow naming points to the caliper, which is hollow-cast as standard to cut rotating and unsprung mass at the front axle, where the 240 carries the bulk of its weight over the redblock engine. It is a complete front package, calipers, two-piece floating discs and the fitting hardware needed to bolt onto the 240’s front hubs, rather than a pad-and-disc swap. Pad compound is a buyer choice across Street, Sport and Racing, so the same hardware covers a quietly improved road car or a harder-working track build. Calipers come in Red, Yellow, Gold, Black and Anodized Black at no extra cost, with a Custom Color in any Pantone, premium polished-forged Titanium, Polished Gold and Polished Silver, and candy Teal, Blue, Red and Orange offered as upgrades, plus a Hollow Racing caliper rated to 1000C with a two-year warranty for serious track use. The emphasis throughout is repeatable stopping power and pedal consistency on a platform whose factory brakes were always the weak link.

Fitment for the Volvo 240 (1974-1993)

This is a front-axle kit covering the full Volvo 240 production run from 1974 to 1993. It is designed to fit the 240’s front hubs across that span. Confirm your wheel clearance against the configured disc and caliper size before ordering, as the larger package needs adequate room inside the rim. Discs come drilled or slotted at the same price, and centre bells can be upgraded to two-tone in five anodized colours or titanium at checkout.

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