XYZ Racing Top Sport Coilovers — Audi S5 B8 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2007-2016

The B8 S5’s 4.2 FSI V8 sits forward of the front axle, and quattro owners know what that means on turn-in: a nose that wants to wash wide before the rear has finished loading. The Top Sport coilover is built to attack that exact balance problem on an S5 B8 that’s seeing occasional track days alongside daily commuting. It swaps the factory-soft Audi tune for damping and spring rates that suppress the body movement the OEM struts allow under heavier braking and faster direction changes.

This kit includes the cancellation module for the B8’s electronic damping system, so the dash stays clean and the original Audi Magnetic Ride hardware is fully replaced rather than fought against. You get a coilover platform designed around real track-day driving without giving up the ability to drive home from Cadwell.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2016 Audi S5

The Top Sport setup runs roughly 30-50% more damping force and around 2 kg/mm more spring rate than a street tune, and on the heavy B8 platform that translates into a car that actually settles between corners. Front-end push at corner entry drops noticeably as the front tyres stay loaded through the apex instead of the nose pitching forward. Mid-corner the chassis stops bobbing on long sweepers, which is where a stock S5 starts feeling its 1.8-tonne kerb weight.

Ride-height adjustment lets you bring the S5 down out of the 4×4-stance factory ride without crashing into bump-stops, and the damping range gives you a softer setting for the motorway and a firmer one for circuit work. The cancellation kit means the original electronic damping warning never lights up, so the install is genuinely clean.

About the Top Sport coilover

The Top Sport sits in XYZ Racing’s catalogue as the track-capable, road-usable option, drawn from the same damping philosophy the brand runs at circuit level. Spring rates and damping curves are stepped up from the street setting specifically to control body movement over kerbs and rough circuit surfaces while still absorbing the larger inputs that destroy a stiffer race coilover on UK B-roads. The valving is set to keep tyre contact across uneven tarmac, which is the practical limit on most road-legal track cars.

Construction is monotube with adjustable damping and adjustable ride height independent of preload, so corner weighting stays sensible after you’ve dropped the car. All of the settings carry over from XYZ Racing’s track-day programme, which is why the brand markets the Top Sport as the kit for aggressive driving rather than a comfort-biased street drop.

Fitment for the Audi S5 (2007-2016)

This coilover set fits the Audi S5 B8 quattro 4WD, chassis code AU28-1-C, model years 2007 to 2016. The kit includes the cancellation module required to delete the factory electronic damping system on cars originally optioned with Audi’s adaptive setup, so no dash error remains after install.

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