XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Honda CIVIC EK SINGLE CAM 1996-2000

The EK Civic is one of the lightest front-drive chassis Honda ever sold in Europe, and its biggest weakness on a stock setup is a soft rear end that lets the car roll onto its outside front tyre mid-corner. The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover for the 1996-2000 Civic EK (single-cam variants) is built around that reality: it lifts the rear spring rate enough to rotate the car on turn-in, then gives you 720 damping settings to tune out the choppiness that usually comes with a stiffer EK.

This is the Street Advanced spec – XYZ’s enthusiast-street coilover with adjustable comfort, sitting below the Super Sport and Top Sport circuit kits. For an EK daily that sees the occasional B-road blast or trackday, it is the sensible pick over the harder race-orientated kits in the range.

What this coilover does for your 1996-2000 Honda CIVIC EK SINGLE CAM

On the EK, ride height drop alone changes the car – the rolling centre comes down, the camber curve sharpens, and you stop scrubbing the outer edge of the front tyres. Pair that with the Street Advanced’s 720-way damping adjuster and you can run a tauter rear without the back axle skipping over expansion joints on motorway runs. The single-cam EKs are light, so you do not need huge spring rates to feel a change; the result is a Civic that turns in flatter, holds a tighter line through long sweepers, and stops squatting under throttle out of slow corners. Brake feel improves as a byproduct – less nose-dive means the pedal stays where you left it on the second and third stop.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s most popular product line, developed over years by the in-house XYZ team and refined through testing in international race series before being adapted for street use. The construction targets normal road duty and trackday work without forcing the driver to pick one or the other. The headline spec is the 720-step damping adjuster, which moves bump and rebound together on a single knob – far more resolution than the 32-click adjusters typical of entry-level kits, and enough to find a setting that matches a UK B-road instead of compromising at the nearest preset. The kit is height-adjustable independently of preload, so corner weights and stance work without sacrificing usable shock travel. It is positioned by XYZ as the indispensable upgrade for drivers chasing speed and finer control, but configured to remain liveable on rough road.

Fitment for the Honda CIVIC EK SINGLE CAM (1996-2000)

This kit is specific to the single-cam EK chassis Civic built between 1996 and 2000 – the European-spec hatch and saloon variants running the D-series SOHC engines, not the VTi B16 cars. Confirm your chassis matches before ordering; the twin-cam EK4 uses a different part number in this range.

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Pick your spring rates, height, and damper preferences in the configurator below to build the spec for your EK.