XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Dodge CHARGER 2006-2010

The LX-platform Charger is a 1,900kg rear-drive saloon riding on a heavily modified Mercedes W211 architecture, and on a sealed tarmac stage that mass shows up in every direction change. The standard dampers were calibrated for American highways, not for European-style rally stages where compression hits and crested apexes arrive in the same second. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover for the 2006-2010 Charger is built around that gap.

This is the rally-bias damper in the XYZ range, calibrated for sealed-stage tarmac work where the surface is broken but not unsurfaced. The valving prioritises absorbing single big hits – kerbs, manhole covers, patched repairs – without pitching the chassis into a secondary movement that costs you the next braking marker.

What this coilover kit does for your 2006-2010 Dodge Charger

The first thing you feel is composure over mid-corner intrusions. The damper soaks up a sharp compression and recovers cleanly, so the rear tyres stay loaded instead of skipping wide on exit – which on a long, heavy saloon like the LX Charger is the difference between a clean stage and a tank-slapper at the next tightening radius. Front-end response sharpens, because the standard car’s vague turn-in is largely a damping problem, not a spring problem. Body roll comes down enough to keep the outside tyre working at a useful camber angle, but not so much that the car gets brittle when a stage surface deteriorates. Traction off slow corners improves noticeably; the rear axle finds purchase instead of squatting and washing wide.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is a purpose-developed damper for sealed-surface stage rallying, and the valving philosophy is built around impact absorption rather than circuit-style flat ride. It is engineered to take a hard hit – a kerb, a step, a poorly patched section – and dissipate that energy without transmitting a secondary shock through the chassis, which is what unsettles the body and breaks tyre traction on the way out of a corner. The settings carried over from XYZ Racing’s own Tarmac Rally programme, so the baseline calibration reflects competitive stage use rather than a generic adjustable damper specification. Spring and damper rates are matched for a vehicle this weight running on rally-spec tarmac compounds. The result is a chassis that stays planted through the broken sections, holds the tyres squarely on the road, and gives the driver a stable platform to commit from.

Fitment for the Dodge Charger (2006-2010)

This kit is engineered for the LX-platform Charger sold from 2006 through 2010, covering the SE, SXT, R/T and SRT8 variants on the original DO01 chassis designation. It fits the pre-facelift LX cars before the 2011 LD update.

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Configure your Tarmac Rally Charger kit below – spring rates, top mounts and damper settings are all selectable in the builder.