XYZ Racing Hollow Rear Brake Kit — Honda CIVIC EK TYPE-R (1996-2000)

The EK Type-R leans hard on its front axle under braking, and the standard rear setup does little to share the load once a session heats up. The XYZ Racing rear brake kit for the Honda Civic EK Type-R (1996-2000) brings the back axle properly into the conversation, adding bite and heat capacity where the factory rear hardware runs out of ideas.

This is the rear half of a balanced upgrade for a 185ps hatch that already lives at the top of the rev range. With three pad compounds, it scales from fast-road duty to repeat track laps without asking one set of pads to do everything.

What this rear brake kit does for your 1996-2000 Honda Civic EK Type-R

On a light, front-driven car like the EK9, the rear brakes spend most of their life underworked, which is exactly why they fade or glaze when you finally start leaning on them across a lap. A larger, better-cooled rear setup restores front-to-rear balance, so trail-braking into a tight second-gear corner helps rotate the nose instead of washing the front wide. The Racing pad compound holds its bite through repeated heavy stops, where a tired factory pad goes long and wooden. Drop to the Street compound and you get quieter, lower-dust braking for the daily run, with Sport sitting between the two for fast-road work and the odd track day. The caliper colour options mean the hardware reads as intent behind the wheels rather than an afterthought.

About the Rear Brake Kit

XYZ Racing’s rear brake kit is a matched package, supplied as a pair of calipers, two-piece floating discs and pads engineered to work as a set rather than a parts-bin compromise. The rotors run internal hollow vanes to cut rotating and unsprung mass while preserving thermal capacity, and they come drilled or slotted at the same price. It mounts to the EK Type-R’s rear axle on fitment-specific hardware, so the geometry is fixed rather than shimmed into place. The headline decision is pad compound: Street for an OE-style, low-dust feel, Sport for a firmer everyday bite, and Racing for the heat tolerance and consistency a track day demands. The hollow-body caliper is standard, with an optional Hollow Racing upgrade for serious track use that drops the dust cover, is rated to 1000C and carries a two-year warranty. Included painted finishes are Red, Yellow, Gold, Black and Anodized Black at no extra cost, with a custom Pantone colour at £150, plus premium polished-forged Titanium, Polished Gold and Polished Silver and candy Teal, Blue, Red and Orange. The aim is simple: give a front-biased hatch a rear end that keeps working when the fronts are at their hardest, without turning the car into a snatchy, over-braked handful on the road.

Fitment for the Honda Civic EK Type-R (1996-2000)

This kit is cut specifically for the Honda Civic EK Type-R built between 1996 and 2000, fitting the rear axle of the EK-generation chassis as a pair. It is a rear-only kit, intended to pair with a matching front upgrade or to correct rear balance on a car already running uprated fronts. Confirm your exact build year against the 1996-2000 span before ordering.

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Set your pad compound and caliper colour using the options above when you order.