XYZ Racing Gravel Rally Coilovers — Aston Martin DB9 2004-2016

The Aston Martin DB9’s VH-platform aluminium architecture and transaxle layout give it something most front-engined grand tourers lack: genuine near-50:50 weight balance front to rear. On loose surfaces that balance becomes an asset – but only if the suspension can handle the sustained punishment that gravel stages dish out to a car weighing north of 1,700kg. XYZ Racing’s Gravel Rally coilover for the DB9 is built to let that chassis exploit its weight distribution rather than be undone by it.

Clubman competitors and privateers rallying AS02-chassis DB9s face a specific problem: the factory suspension offers virtually no travel for stage use, and spring rates calibrated for smooth tarmac are far too stiff for the lateral loadings and surface irregularities of gravel competition. This kit addresses both problems at the engineering level.

What this coilover does for your 2004-2016 Aston Martin DB9

The inverted tube damper construction keeps unsprung mass low on a car that already carries its weight in all the right places, while the extended stroke and longer spring specification mean the DB9’s double wishbone geometry can work through its full travel range across gravel, sandstone, silt, and snow surfaces. Where the standard suspension runs short on travel and loses contact, this coilover maintains composure. Spring rate settings validated through Rally Racing team testing – rather than theoretical calculation alone – matter most on stage surfaces where G-forces in cornering and under hard braking far exceed anything road driving produces. The result is a DB9 that can be committed into blind crests without the chassis hunting and deflecting mid-corner.

About the Gravel Rally coilover

The Gravel Rally is XYZ Racing’s competition-specification damper for stage rally and rallycross, developed to handle the most aggressive surface conditions in those categories. The inverted tube design places the larger damper cylinder at the top of the unit, lowering the centre of gravity of the assembly and sharpening response to rapid direction changes – relevant when a 1,700kg-plus GT is being driven hard through hairpins on loose gravel. Long-travel springs are matched to long-stroke dampers to absorb the chassis vibration and sudden vertical loads that high-speed rough-road surfaces generate, and to bear the extreme lateral G-forces produced in fast rally bends. Every spring rate in the range has been signed off against data gathered by Rally Racing teams across sandstone, compacted snow, and fine silt conditions – surfaces where damper behaviour diverges considerably from one to the next.

Fitment for the Aston Martin DB9 (2004-2016)

This kit is catalogued against the AS02 chassis, covering the full Aston Martin DB9 production run from 2004 through to end of production in 2016. Buyers should confirm their car’s specific suspension geometry before ordering, as early and late DB9 variants share the VH platform but some model-year revisions carried updated subframe specifications.

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The DB9 is not the obvious choice for a stage rally build, but the AS02 chassis has the weight distribution to be a serious competitor on loose surfaces – this kit is built to let it prove that. Configure yours below.