XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda CIVIC EF CRX TWIN CAM (Rear FORK) 1989-1991

The EF-generation CRX is a featherweight on torsion-bar front suspension and double-wishbone rear, and on a broken tarmac stage that geometry is both its gift and its problem. The chassis darts, the nose goes light over crests, and a stock-rate damper runs out of stroke the moment a sealed-stage surface turns into patched asphalt and kerbing. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built specifically for that environment – sealed-stage rally on a 1989-1991 HN13 CRX twin-cam.

This is not the fast-road kit asked to moonlight at a rally. The damping curve is tuned to absorb large single-hit impacts without packing down, then recover fast enough to keep the front tyre loaded through the next compression. For a sub-900kg CRX running on a narrow track, that recovery speed is what turns a survivable stage into a competitive one.

What this coilover does for your 1989-1991 Honda CIVIC EF CRX TWIN CAM (Rr FORK)

The Tarmac Rally damping is built to soak up the jolt of a big hit – kerb strikes, crests, ruts in resurfaced sections – without transmitting it through the chassis and unsettling the car mid-corner. On the EF CRX, where rear grip is finite and the car will pivot on lift, that body control directly buys you confidence to stay on the throttle through fast sweepers. Suppressing shock travel into the body also keeps the contact patch planted, which is the single largest gain in tyre traction you will feel on a rough sealed stage. Expect a more compliant car over the bad sections of road and a more composed one when the surface tidies up, with the rear stepping out predictably rather than snapping. The fork-style rear, paired with damping rates set for rally loadings rather than circuit grip, gives the back of the car enough travel to keep the inside wheel down on cambered exits.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally series is a discipline-specific damper, not a re-valved fast-road part. Its job is to absorb the impact of uneven pavement – the patched, cambered, kerbed surfaces that define sealed-stage rallying – while keeping the body suppressed and the tyre loaded. XYZ position this as the damper that lets the driver experience perfect handling on surfaces where a circuit-spec coilover would either bottom out or skip across the road. Every setting in this kit is drawn from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme; the spring rates, damping curves and stroke have been arrived at through stage running rather than carried over from another series. For an EF chassis, that means a coilover that respects how light the car is and how quickly it loads and unloads, rather than overwhelming it with circuit-grade stiffness.

Fitment for the Honda CIVIC EF CRX TWIN CAM (Rr FORK) (1989-1991)

Built for the HN13 CRX twin-cam, 1989 to 1991, with the rear fork mounting. Confirm your rear lower mount style is the fork variant before ordering – the EF range used both fork and eye mounts depending on market and trim, and the two are not interchangeable.

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