XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Ferrari 488 GTB (with hydraulic lift, excl.control system) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2016-2026

The 488 GTB was never built with sealed-stage tarmac rally in mind. Ferrari’s twin-turbo V8 chassis runs magnetorheological dampers tied into vehicle electronics, and the factory hydraulic nose lift sits in the middle of any suspension conversation – which is exactly why this kit exists in the form it does. It is a Tarmac Rally coilover engineered around the 488 GTB’s specific hardware: hydraulic lift preserved, electronic damping bypassed cleanly via the included cancellation kit.

For a 660bhp mid-engined Ferrari on closed tarmac stages, the brief is unforgiving. Compression strokes need to swallow crested kerbs and broken tarmac without unsettling a car that already moves a lot of mass behind the driver, and rebound has to return the contact patch fast enough to keep traction through corner exit.

What this coilover does for your 2016-2026 Ferrari 488 GTB

Drop the electronic dampers and you get something the factory setup cannot give you: a chassis tuned around your stage profile rather than around a road-biased compromise. The Tarmac Rally damping is built to absorb single big hits – kerb strikes, compression bumps, surface joins – without packing down and without ricocheting the rear off the road. On a 488 that translates to a flatter, more predictable platform when you load the front under brakes and rotate the car on the throttle. The hydraulic lift remains in circuit, so paddock access and driveway ramps still work as Ferrari intended. The cancellation kit closes off the electronic damping control loop so the dashboard stays clean and you keep the rest of the car’s electronics happy.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is the rally-specification damper in the XYZ Racing range, built for sealed-stage work rather than gravel. The damping profile is the headline: long-travel valving tuned to absorb large, sharp inputs and suppress secondary shock through the body of the car, then recover quickly to plant the tyre. The whole specification is drawn from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme, which means valving choices and travel decisions come from running the chassis hard on real stages rather than from a generic catalogue map. The result is a setup that prioritises tyre traction and vehicle stability over outright low-speed body control – the correct trade for stage pace.

Fitment for the Ferrari 488 GTB (2016-2026)

Specific to the 488 GTB (chassis FE03-C) fitted with the factory hydraulic lift system, excluding the control system. The kit includes the cancellation hardware required to bypass Ferrari’s electronic damping management, so the dashboard does not throw warnings once the magnetorheological units come off the car. Covers model years 2016 through 2026.

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Specify your spring rates and damping preference in the configurator below to build your kit.