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Big Brake Kit

XYZ Racing Hollow Front Brake Kit — Volvo S60 MK1 (2001-2009)

SKU: XYZ-BRK-BKF-VL-04-A-FRONT

  • IncludesFront axle pair (2 discs + 2 calipers)
  • PositionFront
  • Disc Ø330–444 mm
  • Caliper pots6 / 8 / 12-pot
  • Lead time10–15 working days

Fits Volvo S60 MK1 (2001-2009)

Brake pad compound

Street: quiet, low-dust, strong cold bite for road driving. Sport: higher temperature range and more bite for fast road and occasional track. Racing: maximum fade resistance for sustained track use (noisier and dustier cold). Match the pad to how hard you actually brake.

Disc size

Caliper grade

Hollow is the standard caliper: a lighter hollow-body forged caliper with a dust cover and a 5-year warranty. Hollow Racing drops the dust cover for sustained high-temperature use (rated to 1000°C, 2-year warranty) — the track-grade choice.

Caliper colour

Painted colours are included. Polished-forged finishes are mirror-polished forged calipers (Titanium, Gold, Silver); candy colours are a deep, mirror-reflection paint. Both are premium upgrades — fuller detail further down the page.

Painted — includedTell us the exact Pantone (PMS) code you want the calipers painted.Polished forgedCandy
Disc style

Drilled discs (cross-drilled holes) vent gas and water and look aggressive; slotted discs (surface grooves) wipe the pad face clean and resist fade under sustained hard use. Same price — choose on looks or how you drive.

Centre bell

The centre bell is the CNC-machined aluminium hat that joins the disc to the hub. Standard anodized is included; a two-tone bell adds an anodized accent ring in your choice of colour; titanium is the lightest, forged option.

Carbon-ceramic rotor

Carbon-ceramic rotors are a special-order track upgrade: far lighter than steel, fade-resistant at extreme temperatures and extremely long-lived. The price follows the disc size you choose above. The standard two-piece steel rotor is included.

Configured price£2,000.00Inc. VAT

Lead time: 10–15 working days from payment


£2,000.00

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XYZ Racing Hollow Front Brake Kit — Volvo S60 MK1 (2001-2009) — 330 mm
330 mm

The S60 MK1’s P2 platform hangs a transverse five-cylinder over the front axle, and that nose-heavy mass is exactly what overwhelms the standard front brakes once you start driving the car the way the T5 engine encourages. This XYZ Racing Hollow Front Brake Kit replaces the factory front setup on the 2001-2009 S60 with larger two-piece floating discs and a fixed caliper, giving a heavy FWD/AWD saloon the front-axle stopping power it never had as standard.

Volvo themselves proved the platform can carry a serious front brake package, the S60R ran factory Brembos, and this kit brings that same logic to the rest of the range. Supplied as a matched pair of left and right front corners, it is aimed at fast-road and track-day owners who keep loading the front end and want the pedal to stay firm when the standard discs would already be cooking.

What this big brake kit does for your 2001-2009 Volvo S60 MK1

The first thing you feel is a higher, harder pedal that resists the long-travel mush the OE brakes develop once warm. The two-piece floating discs cut rotating and unsprung mass at each front corner and clear heat through their hollow-vane casting, which sharpens steering response and helps the front suspension settle faster over mid-corner bumps, useful on a 1.5-tonne saloon that leans on its outside front tyre. Pad compound is your call: Street suits a daily S60 with quiet, low-dust manners, Sport adds bite and heat tolerance for spirited B-road use, and the Racing compound holds up to repeat hard stops on circuit. Across all three, the bigger swept area and stiffer caliper give you brake confidence the factory setup loses after a couple of committed stops.

About the Hollow Front Brake Kit

The Hollow Front Brake Kit is built around lightweight two-piece floating discs with hollow-vane cooling and a rigid front caliper that flexes far less than the sliding factory unit. The caliper is hollow-bodied as standard, lowering unsprung weight, while reducing disc mass lowers thermal inertia and trims the rotating weight the engine and suspension have to manage, and the larger disc diameter increases leverage and heat capacity for fade resistance. Three pad compounds, Street, Sport and Racing, let you match friction level and operating temperature to how the car is actually used. Calipers come finished in Red, Yellow, Gold, Black or 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 as upgrades, plus a Hollow Racing caliper rated to 1000C with a two-year warranty for serious track use, so the kit reads as deliberate behind an open wheel rather than an afterthought.

Fitment for the Volvo S60 MK1 (2001-2009)

This is a front-position kit for the first-generation Volvo S60 (MK1), covering the 2001 to 2009 model years. It fits the P2-platform S60 in front-disc form; confirm your wheel clearance and current front disc setup against your exact car before ordering. 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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Choose your pad compound and caliper finish and configure your S60 front brake kit using the options above.

What’s in the kit

Front axle kit — supplied as a complete bolt-on assembly.

  • 2×Two-piece floating discs — 330–444 mm: you pick the exact diameter with the "Disc size" option
  • 2×Lightweight aluminium centre bells
  • 2×Forged aluminium calipers — 6 / 8 / 12-pot
  • 2×High-stiffness mounting brackets
  • 2×Braided stainless steel brake lines
  • 4×High-performance brake pads (1 set)
  • 1×Fitting hardware & tools pack

Choosing your spec

Every kit is built to order around the choices you make above. Here is what each option actually changes, so you can spec yours with confidence.

Brake pads — Street, Sport or Racing

Every kit ships with a full set of high-performance pads; the compound is your call.

Street is the right default for fast-road driving — a strong, progressive cold bite with low noise, low dust and long disc life. Sport raises the working temperature and adds bite and fade resistance for hard road use and the occasional track day, while still behaving on a cold morning. Racing is a track compound built for sustained abuse: huge fade resistance and bite once heat is in it, at the cost of more noise and dust when cold. Match the pad to how hard you actually use the brakes — there is no benefit to a race pad that never gets up to temperature.

Caliper grade — Hollow vs Hollow Racing

Hollow is the standard caliper on every kit: a hollow-body forged caliper, lighter than a solid one, fitted with a dust cover and backed by a 5-year oil-leak warranty. For most fast-road and spirited track use it is all the caliper you need.

Hollow Racing is the track-grade upgrade. It runs the same hollow body but without a dust cover (so there is nothing to melt at sustained high temperature), uses a twin-metal piston that isolates heat travelling from the disc to the oil seal, and is rated to 1000°C. Available 286–380mm (front). Warranty is 2 years on oil leaks and 10 years on appearance. Built for professional racing and repeated track days.

Hollow Racing caliper

Caliper colour & finish

Painted colours (Red, Yellow, Gold, Black, Anodized Black) are included at no cost. Want an exact match to your car? Custom Color (+£150) paints the calipers to any Pantone code you supply (15–20 day lead time).

Polished Forged finishes are the flagship: a forged caliper given a mirror-polished surface treatment that shifts colour with the viewing angle. Beyond the looks, the polished surface dissipates heat better, resists rust and stands up to the weather. Choose Titanium (neochrome, +£350), Polished Gold (+£300) or Polished Silver (+£250). They look their best paired with a titanium centre bell. Care: clean only with a dilute neutral cleaner or water.

Candy colours (+£200) use a deep candy-paint and polishing process for a mirror-reflection, boutique finish — pick Teal, Blue, Red or Orange (shown below right).

Polished forged caliper finishes
Candy caliper colours

Centre bells

The centre bell is the CNC-machined aluminium hat that joins the disc to the hub. The standard anodized centre bell is included. The Two-tone bell (+£200) adds an anodized accent ring — choose Red, Yellow, Orange, Purple or Silver right here at checkout. The Titanium centre bell (+£500) is a forged titanium bell (bolts not included) that finishes off the polished-forged look.

Two-tone anodized centre bells
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