XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda ACCORD CF3/4/5 (JAPAN) 1997-2002

The CF-chassis Accord wasn’t built with sealed-stage tarmac in mind. JDM-spec CF3/4/5 saloons run a long wheelbase, a soft front strut tune, and a torsional stiffness that starts to wash out the moment you load the outside front under braking into a tightening hairpin. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is the answer to that specific problem: a damper built to keep a front-driven Japanese saloon planted, settled and steering on broken, undulating tarmac where a circuit-focused setup would skip and a road kit would bottom out.

This is the rally-spec coilover from XYZ Racing’s range – not the Top Sport, not the Super Sport. It is the kit you specify when the car is going to spend its life on stage tyres, on roads that punish dampers, and on surfaces that change from grippy hot mix to broken patch repair inside one corner.

What this coilover does for your 1997-2002 Honda Accord CF3/4/5 (JAPAN)

On a CF-series Accord, the Tarmac Rally damper transforms how the car eats kerbs, compressions and mid-corner ruts. The damping is tuned to absorb large, sudden impacts – the sort of vertical hits that unsettle a road coilover for several metres of road – and then return the tyre to the surface without a secondary rebound bounce. That matters on a nose-heavy front-driven Accord, where any wheel that leaves the ground costs you steering input and drive on corner exit. Expect a calmer front end under trail-braking, a rear that follows the front rather than skipping wide, and a level of tyre contact across rough surfaces that an entry-level coilover cannot replicate. The compromise is honest: this is rally damping, not boulevard damping, and the car will feel busier at low speed in exchange for composure when the road turns nasty.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ Racing’s stage-tarmac specification, with damping logic drawn directly from their tarmac rally racing programme. The design priority is impact absorption – soaking up the jolt when the chassis crosses big bumps, broken edges and compressions – without losing body control on the long, loaded corners that make up a sealed stage. The construction is built around suppressing shock-body movement so the spring can return the tyre to the surface quickly, which is what translates into traction and stability on a surface that changes every fifty metres. The settings carried into this kit are the ones XYZ have developed through their own tarmac rally competition work, not a re-labelled circuit damper. Adjustment lets the driver tune the car to the stage rather than tune the stage out of the car.

Fitment for the Honda ACCORD CF3/4/5 (JAPAN) (1997-2002)

This kit is specified for the JDM-market Honda Accord CF3, CF4 and CF5 chassis built from 1997 to 2002. It is the Japan-spec platform, which differs in subframe and mounting detail from the UK CG saloon of the same era, so confirm your chassis code matches CF3, CF4 or CF5 before ordering.

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If you are building a CF-series Accord for sealed-stage tarmac work, pick your spring rate and damping settings in the configurator below.