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

The C5 and C6 Corvette were built around a transverse composite leaf and Magnetic Selective Ride Control – clever for a road car, a liability the moment you start running slick-shod laps at Donington or asking the car to behave on a bumpy British B-road in anger. The Racing Spec coilover with electronic damping cancellation rips that compromise out at the root and replaces it with a proper, mechanically adjustable damper platform built from circuit data.

This is the kit for owners who have already moved past the "lowering springs and a remap" stage. It is aimed squarely at serious track and time-attack use in the C5 Z06, C6 base, C6 Z06 and the LS7-engined cars where the factory FE3/F55 setup is the limiting factor before tyre.

What this coilover does for your 1997-2013 Chevrolet Corvette C5/c6 (cancellation Kit For Electronic Damping)

The cancellation harness shuts down the factory MagneRide ECU cleanly so you no longer get a dashboard fault light or a limp suspension map fighting the new dampers. With the electronic system out of the loop, the car finally responds to mechanical damping changes the way a coilover-equipped chassis should. Body roll on turn-in tightens up, the front axle stops loading the outside tyre as lazily, and the rear end settles instead of pattering over mid-corner ridges – which is the Corvette’s signature complaint on a UK circuit surface. Ride height comes down to where the aero starts to work, and you get the camber window the OEM setup never gave you. Brake dive under heavy ABS-threshold stops is dramatically reduced, which is what most owners actually feel first.

About the Racing Spec coilover

Racing Spec is XYZ Racing’s circuit-derived damper, with the valving and spring rates signed off using data from direct participation in race series including the WTCC. It is not a fast-road kit with a track label stuck on it – the baseline spec assumes slicks or semi-slicks, a stripped or part-stripped interior, and a driver who knows how to read a damper. Construction is to XYZ’s race-shop pattern, and the kit ships with the Corvette-specific cancellation harness so the factory MagneRide loom can be unplugged without throwing codes. For cars running heavy aero packages, race-class engine upgrades or anything outside a normal road-going Z06 envelope, XYZ will build custom-valved units against your spec sheet, target circuit and tyre choice – useful if you are campaigning a serious A-class car rather than a weekend track toy.

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

Chassis code CH08-C, covering 1997 through 2013 – the full C5 and C6 run, including the MagneRide-equipped variants where the cancellation kit is required. This is the version of the coilover to order if your car left the factory with electronic damping; the standard kit will not work without it.

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Pick your spring rates, ride height and any custom-valving requirements in the configurator below.