XYZ Racing Top Sport Coilovers — Chevrolet CORVETTE C5/C6 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 1997-2013

The C5 and C6 Corvette were built around GM’s Magnetic Selective Ride Control on the higher trims, and that electronic damping is exactly what stops most owners from running a proper coilover. The XYZ Racing Top Sport coilover for the 1997-2013 Chevrolet Corvette C5/C6 ships with the cancellation kit that tells the car’s ECU the MagneRide circuit is happy, so the dash stays clean and the suspension stops fighting you.

What you get underneath is a transverse-leaf chassis finally running on proper height-and-damping-adjustable struts. The C5/C6’s nose tucks and the rear settles, and the float that the factory dampers develop over 50,000 miles disappears the first time you load the car into a fast corner.

What this coilover does for your 1997-2013 Chevrolet Corvette C5/C6

Spring rates lifted around 2kg/mm over street settings and damping wound 30-50% firmer than a comfort coilover stop the long-wheelbase Corvette pitching under braking and squatting on corner exit. The LS-powered nose stays settled when you trail-brake into a fast right-hander, and the rear axle finds traction earlier on power. Ride height comes down enough to clean up the wheel-arch gap the C5 and C6 are infamous for, without compromising the geometry on a UK B-road. Tyre contact patch stays consistent through compressions, so the car’s natural mid-corner balance comes back. The cancellation module keeps the dashboard quiet and the active-suspension warning lights off, which matters if you want to keep the cabin experience factory.

About the Top Sport coilover

Top Sport sits at the road-and-track end of the XYZ Racing range, drawn directly from the team’s race programme but wound back for cars that still have to commute. The damping curve runs roughly 30-50% firmer than a street coilover, with spring rates around 2kg/mm above standard – enough to settle the body on impact, enough to absorb bigger road inputs without crashing through. The construction is built to soak up the jolt from a sharp expansion joint and then suppress the secondary body movement, which is what gives the chassis its mid-corner stability. XYZ has tuned the settings against their own track-day data, so the kit lands where most fast-road and occasional-circuit Corvette owners want to be: composed at 70mph cruise, planted at a Cadwell or Croft track day. The cancellation kit included in this SKU is the part that makes the whole package viable on a MagneRide-equipped car.

Fitment for the Chevrolet CORVETTE C5/C6 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (1997-2013)

This kit fits both C5 (1997-2004) and C6 (2005-2013) Corvettes equipped with the factory electronic damping system, and includes the cancellation module to disable the MagneRide / Selective Ride Control signal to the ECU. Chassis code CH08-C covers the full 1997-2013 production span. Confirm your car’s original-spec damping system before ordering, as cars without electronic damping take a different XYZ Racing part number.

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Pick your spring rate, damping spec and ride height in the configurator below to build the Top Sport kit to your car.