XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda ACCORD CA1/2/3/4/5/6 1985-1989

The third-generation Accord is a chassis that rewards a driver who reads the road early. Its long wheelbase and softly-sprung double-wishbone front end were a revelation in 1985, but four decades on, those original dampers give up long before the chassis does – and on a closed tarmac stage, that gap is where stage times disappear. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built to close it.

This is a sealed-surface rally damper, not a road-biased lowering kit. It is engineered to keep a 1980s Honda planted across the broken camber, mid-corner ruts and compressions that define UK and European tarmac stages, while still giving the driver a chassis that talks back through the wheel.

What this coilover does for your 1985-1989 Honda Accord Ca1/2/3/4/5/6

On a CA-series Accord, the front double wishbones give you geometry that wants to work – what they need is a damper that controls the body without locking the suspension up over rough sections. That is the brief XYZ Racing has built this kit around. The valving is set to soak up the larger hits that come off broken tarmac, kerb strikes and compressions, so the contact patch stays loaded through the bump rather than skipping across it.

For the driver, that translates to a front end that bites cleanly on turn-in, a rear that follows the line rather than walking sideways over surface changes, and noticeably more usable grip out of slow second-gear hairpins. Body movement is contained without going stiff-legged, so the Accord still rotates the way it always wanted to – it just stops giving back the lap time mid-corner.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ Racing’s sealed-stage damper, with valving developed directly from the company’s own tarmac rally programme. It is built to absorb the impact of uneven pavement – the kind of repeated mid-corner intrusions and sharp compressions that destroy a road-spec damper inside a single stage – and to suppress secondary body movement so the tyre can put its load back into the surface.

Construction and damping behaviour are tuned to keep tyre traction high across surfaces that change every few metres. That is the philosophy behind the kit: vehicle stability first, so the driver has a platform that responds predictably to inputs. The settings carried into this kit come from real stage data rather than a generic motorsport menu, which is why it behaves like a rally damper rather than a stiffened track coilover.

Fitment for the Honda Accord (1985-1989)

This kit fits the third-generation Honda Accord, chassis codes CA1, CA2, CA3, CA4, CA5 and CA6, covering the 1985 to 1989 model years. Use the configurator below to confirm your exact variant before ordering.

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The Accord CA is a chassis worth committing to properly – pick your spring rate and damping spec in the configurator below.