XYZ Racing Hollow Rear Brake Kit — Subaru IMPREZA WRX AWD φ 286/ φ 190 (2014-2026)

On the VA-generation Subaru Impreza WRX, the rear axle works harder than owners expect. Symmetrical AWD pulls weight rearward on power-down, and the factory rear discs are small enough to heat-soak after a handful of hard stops on a circuit. This XYZ Racing Hollow Rear Brake Kit swaps them for a 286mm two-piece floating disc and matched caliper, sized to shed heat and hold a firm pedal where the standard setup starts to go long.

This is a rear-axle kit, a matched pair of left and right corners, so it is about balance more than outright stopping power. Run it with a matching front setup and you get a brake package that keeps its bias predictable through repeated threshold braking, the point at which a WRX’s tail begins to feel nervous on the way into a slow corner.

What this rear brake kit does for your 2014-2026 Subaru Impreza WRX

The two-piece floating disc strips rotating and unsprung mass from each rear corner, which the WRX feels as sharper turn-in and a rear axle that settles faster over kerbs and broken surfaces. With the Racing pad compound fitted, the rear stays inside its working temperature window through successive braking zones, so the car’s balance does not creep forward as the session wears on. Street and Sport compounds are there if the WRX is mainly a fast-road car that sees the occasional track day. The 286mm disc and its 190mm drum-in-hat parking brake bolt straight to the factory rear hub, so handbrake function and AWD geometry stay untouched. The upshot is a rear end you can trust to pull its weight, not one you nurse through the back half of a lap.

About the Hollow Rear Brake Kit

The Hollow Rear Brake Kit centres on a 286mm two-piece floating disc rather than a cast-solid rotor, letting the friction ring expand against an alloy bell to cut thermal distortion while trimming rotational inertia and exposing more surface area to dump heat. The disc carries a 190mm drum for the parking brake, matching the Subaru’s factory rear architecture so nothing about the handbrake or hub mounting changes. The caliper is a hollow-cast forging as standard, with an optional Hollow Racing upgrade rated to 1000C and a two-year warranty for dedicated track use. Three pad compounds cover how these cars actually get used: a Street compound for predictable road manners, a Sport compound with more bite and heat tolerance for fast road and the odd track day, and a Racing compound for sustained circuit work. Caliper finish is your call across Red, Yellow, Gold, Black or Anodized Black at no extra cost, with a Custom Color in any Pantone for £150 plus premium polished-forged and candy options, so the kit can hide behind the wheel or show through the spokes. Disc faces are drilled or slotted at the same price, and the centre bell upgrades to a five-colour anodized two-tone or titanium at checkout. It is a bolt-on upgrade built around the rear axle’s specific job on an AWD car, managing heat and holding bias rather than chasing the headline stopping figures the fronts already deliver.

Fitment for the Subaru Impreza WRX (2014-2026)

This kit is cut for the Subaru Impreza WRX AWD running the 286mm rear disc and 190mm parking-brake drum, across the 2014 to 2026 model span. It mounts to the factory rear hub and retains the standard handbrake mechanism. Confirm your car carries the 286/190 rear specification before ordering, as Subaru ran more than one rear setup over this period.

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Pick your pad compound and caliper colour from the options above, then build your rear brake spec.