XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda ACCORD CD3/4/5/6 1993-1997

The fifth-gen Accord is one of those chassis that rewards a proper damper before it rewards anything else. The CD-platform front double-wishbone setup is genuinely good geometry hiding under softly-sprung saloon dampers, and on a broken British B-road or a sealed Welsh stage the standard car runs out of body control long before it runs out of grip. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built for exactly that surface: imperfect tarmac, taken seriously.

This is a stage-spec damper for owners running a CD3, CD4, CD5 or CD6 Accord in tarmac rally or fast-road duty where the road is the limiting factor, not the car. The valving philosophy here is high compliance over big single hits, then firm secondary control to keep the contact patch loaded between them.

What this coilover does for your 1993-1997 Honda Accord

On a CD Accord, the gain you feel first is mid-corner composure over patched and pock-marked surfaces. The damper soaks the initial impact of a ridge or a sunken drain instead of skipping the inside front wheel light, which is exactly where the standard car loses time. Body roll tightens up without the cabin turning brittle, so the F22 nose stops washing wide on turn-in and the rear stays planted under trailing throttle. Tyre traction holds through compressions that would unsettle a circuit-spec damper, and the car stops pattering on bumpy braking zones. Ride height, spring preload and damping are all adjustable, so a CD5 saloon set up for sealed-stage work and a CD3 hatch set up for fast-road duty can run very different specs off the same kit.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

This is a purpose-tuned tarmac-stage damper rather than a circuit unit dropped onto a rougher surface. The construction prioritises impact absorption: it is built to swallow the jolt of a big single bump, suppress the secondary shock through the body, and recover the wheel back onto the surface quickly enough to keep traction available for the next input. That is a fundamentally different damping curve to a slick-circuit coilover, which assumes a flat surface and rewards stiffness. XYZ Racing has fed valving data back from their own tarmac rally programme into this spec, which is where the bump and rebound settings come from. The result is a damper that stays compliant when the surface gets bad, but holds the body firmly enough on clean sections that you can carry real speed without the car wallowing between transitions.

Fitment for the Honda ACCORD CD3/4/5/6 (1993-1997)

This kit fits the fifth-generation Accord on the CD3, CD4, CD5 and CD6 chassis codes, covering UK and import saloon, coupe and wagon variants built between 1993 and 1997. Confirm your exact chassis code against the VIN plate before ordering, as the CD platform spans several drivetrain and body configurations across that production run.

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Build your spec in the configurator below to set ride height, spring rate and damper preference for your CD Accord.