XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda CRV V 2017-2023

The fifth-generation CR-V is not a car most enthusiasts associate with stage running, but the platform’s long travel, high centre of gravity and softly damped factory struts are exactly the things a sealed-tarmac event will expose in the first hairpin. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built to take the HN29-2 chassis and give it the body control it needs to attack kerbs, crests and broken patches of asphalt without unloading a wheel mid-corner.

This is the rally-bred specification in the XYZ catalogue, drawn directly from the brand’s own tarmac-stage racing programme. It tightens up the CR-V’s vertical motion, sharpens turn-in response, and gives the chassis a fighting chance of putting power down out of slow corners on a road surface that is rarely as smooth as a circuit.

What this coilover does for your 2017-2023 Honda CRV V

The headline change you will feel on a CR-V V is body control. The factory dampers are tuned for refinement; this set is tuned to suppress the secondary shock that comes after a hard hit, so the tyre stays planted instead of skipping. Across rougher tarmac, that translates into measurably more traction on corner exit and a far calmer nose when you brake into a surface change.

Pitch and roll are reined in without making the ride brittle, which matters because tarmac rally surfaces are not billiard tables. The shock absorption is biased toward bigger impacts – kerbs, expansion joints, patched repairs – so the platform settles quickly and the steering stays honest. The result is a CR-V that turns with intent and tracks straight when the road throws something nasty at it.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally damper is engineered specifically to absorb the impact of uneven pavement at competition pace. Its valving is set up to swallow the jolt from larger bumps, suppress the body’s reaction to that shock, and put the loaded tyre back into the road as quickly as possible to maintain traction.

The settings carried over into this kit are drawn from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally experience, which is what separates a rally-coded damper from a re-labelled fast-road one. Vehicle stability is the design priority: the chassis stays composed when the surface goes from smooth to broken, which is what lets a driver lean on the car through compromised sections of a stage. For a tall SUV like the CR-V V, that calmness over disturbed tarmac is what makes the platform usable for sealed-stage work in the first place.

Fitment for the Honda CRV V (2017-2023)

This kit is built for the HN29-2 chassis CR-V V across the full 2017 to 2023 production run. Strut and shock dimensions, top-mount geometry and spring seat layout are matched to the factory suspension hardpoints so the kit bolts in without subframe modification.

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Configure your spring rates and ride height in the builder below to match the weight and use case of your CR-V V.