XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Honda CIVIC TYPE-R FK8 2017-2026

The FK8 Civic Type R left the factory as one of the most chassis-honest front-drive hot hatches ever sold in the UK – dual-axis front strut to neutralise torque steer, adaptive dampers, and a 169mph V-max that put it in genuine performance-car territory. What it didn’t leave the factory with was a way to lower the ride height a meaningful amount, or to firm up the damping for a Cadwell trackday without giving up the school run on Monday morning.

The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover is the kit built for exactly that compromise. Height-adjustable, 36-way damping, engineered to swap between fast-road compliance and weekend circuit work without you ever popping a wheel-arch liner to touch a spring perch.

What this coilover does for your 2017-2026 Honda Civic Type R FK8

Drop the FK8 onto its Super Sport perches and the first thing that goes is the factory arch gap – the K20C1’s nose stops looking like a press-car render and starts sitting where the chassis engineers clearly wanted it. More important than the look: the lower centre of gravity sharpens turn-in on a car that, in standard form, can feel a touch tall under brakes into a downhill apex.

The 36 clicks of damping adjustment let you run softer for a fast B-road – where the FK8’s adaptive system already does a respectable job but can crash over sharp expansion joints – and wind the damping up for circuit work, where the standard car’s tendency to load the outside front under sustained cornering is the limit you’ll want to push. Threaded bodies mean corner-weighting is on the table once you have the car on scales.

About the Super Sport coilover

Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road-plus-trackday platform, sitting between the daily-biased entry kits and the Top Sport circuit spec. The damper is built to absorb broken UK tarmac – the kind of mid-corner compressions that lighter setups skip over – while still delivering the body control a 2.0-litre turbo hot hatch needs when you’re chasing a lap time.

Construction is a height-adjustable damper with 36-way bump-and-rebound adjustment on a single knob per corner. That breadth of adjustment is the point: 36 clicks gives you genuinely usable steps between supple weekday damping and firm circuit damping, rather than the four-or-five-position compromise of an OE adaptive system. Spring perches thread independently of the damper stroke, so you can drop ride height without losing travel, and the kit is engineered to suit weekend race use alongside daily driving.

Fitment for the Honda CIVIC TYPE-R FK8 (2017-2026)

This kit fits the FK8 chassis Civic Type R, 2017 through 2026 production. The fitment covers the K20C1 turbocharged five-door across its facelifts within that window. Confirm your chassis code reads FK8 on the V5 before ordering.

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Pick your spring rate, top mount and ride-height spec in the configurator below.