XYZ Racing Hollow Front Brake Kit — Toyota ALTEZZA (1998-2005)

The SXE10 Altezza earns its reputation on the road: balanced, rev-happy, and light enough to feel alive at sensible speeds. Point one at a track day, though, and the factory front brakes quickly become the conversation. The single-piston sliding calipers were sized for road use on a car that, in 3S-GE BEAMS trim, produces 200bhp from a naturally aspirated four-cylinder that wants to live above 6,000rpm.

The XYZ Racing Hollow Front Brake Kit addresses that gap directly. Offered with three pad compounds, Street, Sport, and Racing, it can be configured for anything from a hard-driven fast-road Altezza to a BEAMS build that spends its weekends working a circuit infield.

What this brake kit does for your 1998-2005 Toyota ALTEZZA

The Altezza’s near-50:50 weight distribution makes it unusually rewarding to brake late with, but that only holds when front brake pressure stays consistent. The hollow-vane disc pulls heat away from the friction surface faster than a solid rotor, which means a firmer, more predictable pedal as temperatures climb during sustained use. For a BEAMS car, where corner-entry speeds are higher than the stock power figures suggest, that fade resistance changes how the braking zone feels: the driver can carry more speed in and let the SXE10’s chassis balance do its work. The reduced rotating mass of the two-piece floating disc sharpens turn-in, and the caliper colour you choose is purely aesthetic, but through open-spoke aftermarket wheels the visual impact is hard to ignore.

About the Hollow Front Brake Kit

The hollow-vane disc circulates air through the disc body during rotation, drawing heat away from the friction surface at a rate solid rotors cannot match. On a lightweight RWD platform like the Altezza, which concentrates significant thermal load at the front axle under repeated hard stops, that ventilation architecture maintains bite where a standard setup begins to lose it. The discs are two-piece and floating to handle thermal expansion cleanly, and braided lines come as part of the kit. Pad compound is integral from the outset: Street is the quiet, low-dust default for a daily-driven car that sees occasional hard use, Sport adds bite and heat range for a fast-road Altezza worked consistently, and Racing is built for circuit temperatures a road pad never reaches. All three share the same caliper and disc, so the compound can be revisited as the car’s use changes.

Fitment for the Toyota ALTEZZA (1998-2005)

The XYZ Racing Hollow Front Brake Kit covers the Toyota Altezza across its full production run from 1998 to 2005, the XE10 platform in both SXE10 (3S-GE BEAMS) and GXE10 (1G-FE) configurations. This is a front-axle pair. Verify the chassis code against the product selector before ordering to confirm the correct specification for your car.

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Pick your compound, caliper colour, and disc style using the options above to order.