XYZ Racing Hollow Rear Brake Kit — Nissan SILVIA S13 (WITH DRUM) (OE172) (1989-1994)

The S13 Silvias that left the factory on rear drums were always the compromised end of an otherwise well-sorted chassis. The XYZ Racing Hollow Rear Brake Kit for the Nissan Silvia S13 (with Drum) (OE172) replaces that drum assembly with a disc-and-caliper setup, finally letting the back axle keep pace with whatever the front is doing. On a 1989-1994 car that spends its weekends sideways or on a circuit, moving from drum to disc is the single most useful brake change you can make.

Drum rear ends never gave consistent retardation once heat built up, and routing the handbrake through the drum makes a clean, repeatable setup hard to find. Supplied as a matched pair of left and right rear corners, this kit puts a two-piece floating disc, a hollow-body caliper and a choice of pad compound where the OE172 drums used to sit, so the rear of the car responds the same way on the tenth corner as it did on the first.

What this big brake kit does for your 1989-1994 Nissan Silvia S13 (with Drum) (OE172)

The most immediate gain is heat management: a disc sheds temperature far quicker than an enclosed drum, so you get stable pedal feel through repeat braking rather than a long, fading travel. The three pad compounds let you match the rear to how you drive: the Street pad is the quiet, low-dust everyday default, the Sport compound suits spirited road and the occasional track day, and the Racing compound is the track material for when the car lives on circuit. Because the rear now bites predictably, you can trust it to settle the chassis on corner entry instead of fighting an inconsistent drum, and the two-piece floating disc expands evenly under heat instead of coning. For drift use, the firmer rear disc also gives the handbrake something far more controllable to work against.

About the Hollow Rear Brake Kit

The Hollow kit is built around a lightened two-piece floating rotor, with the reduction in rotating mass aimed at quicker warm-up and lower unsprung weight at the rear axle. It is a position-specific kit, designed to bolt to the S13’s drum-equipped rear and convert it to a disc brake without re-engineering the rest of the corner. Discs come drilled or slotted at the same price, with a two-tone centre bell in five anodized colours or titanium selectable at checkout. The hollow-body caliper is included at no extra cost in Red, Yellow, Gold, Black or Anodized Black; a Custom Color in any Pantone is £150, with premium polished-forged finishes in Titanium, Polished Gold and Polished Silver and candy options in Teal, Blue, Red and Orange. Pad selection is the part that matters most: three compounds, Street, Sport and Racing, cover everything from a road-driven S13 to a dedicated track or drift weapon, and a Hollow Racing caliper is available for hard use, with no dust cover, a 1000C rating and a two-year warranty. Spec the compound to the job and the same kit suits a tidy daily or a hard-used grassroots car.

Fitment for the Nissan Silvia S13 (with Drum) (OE172) (1989-1994)

This kit is specific to the S13 Silvia built with rear drum brakes, identified by the OE172 reference, across the 1989-1994 production span. It is the conversion kit for those drum-equipped cars, not the variant that already left the factory on rear discs; check which rear end your S13 carries before ordering, then set your pad compound, disc style and caliper colour in the buy options above.

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Set your pad compound, disc style and caliper colour in the buy options above to build your S13 rear kit.