XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Ferrari CALIFORNIA (Both front and rear top mount are 2 holes) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2008-2014

The Ferrari California is an unusual brief for a rally-spec damper, but that is exactly the point. This is the front-engined, folding-hard-top GT that Maranello built with a wet sump and a transaxle gearbox – a car whose mass sits low and rearward, and whose factory magnetorheological dampers were tuned for a polished motorway rather than a closed special stage. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover for the 2008-2014 California (FE04-1-C chassis, 2-hole top mounts front and rear) rewrites that brief from the ground up.

Crucially, the kit ships with the electronic damping cancellation harness, so the dashboard stays quiet and the car stops fighting an OEM control unit that no longer has a damper to talk to. What you get instead is a fully mechanical, fully adjustable platform built around XYZ’s tarmac-rally programme.

What this coilover does for your 2008-2014 Ferrari California

Tarmac stages punish a long-wheelbase GT in ways a circuit never will – mid-corner ripples, compression crests, jumps onto camber changes. This coilover is built to absorb that vocabulary without unloading the rear axle. Expect a noticeably more planted nose under trail-braking into slow hairpins, more consistent rear traction out of the same corner, and the ability to stay flat through high-frequency surface changes that previously made the California’s adaptive set-up confused. Ride height comes down to a stance that suits the car’s proportions, and the damping range is wide enough that the same kit can be wound back for a road event and stiffened up for a closed-road special.

The 2-hole top mount layout matches this specific California’s strut towers exactly, so installation does not require strut-tower modification.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally series is XYZ Racing’s sealed-tarmac stage damper, developed through the company’s own rally programme rather than adapted from a circuit kit. The brief is impact absorption first – the suspension has to soak up the jolt of a big bump or a kerb strike, then settle the body before the next input arrives, all while keeping the tyre loaded for traction. Every damper setting in the kit is drawn from XYZ’s tarmac rally testing rather than calculated on a rig. That bias toward real-stage behaviour is why the Tarmac Rally feels different to a track-focused coilover when you drop a wheel into a compression: the rebound recovers without throwing the body weight forward, and the bump stroke does not lock up the chassis when the surface deteriorates.

It is a deliberately specialist tool, and on a car as unusual as a California it is the part that finally makes the chassis speak the same language as the road underneath it.

Fitment for the Ferrari California (2008-2014)

This kit fits the 2008-2014 Ferrari California with chassis code FE04-1-C – specifically the variant where both front and rear top mounts use a 2-hole pattern. The supplied electronic damping cancellation kit removes the OEM adaptive system from the loop so the car runs cleanly on the new mechanical dampers. Confirm your top-mount bolt pattern before ordering.

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