XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Honda CRZ ZF1 2010-2016

The Honda CRZ ZF1 was always a chassis in search of better damping. Light at the nose, short in the wheelbase, and asked to do the IMA hybrid system’s job over British B-roads that were never engineered with a 1.5 plus motor in mind – the factory setup leaves the ZF1 floaty over crests and unsettled when you start to lean on it. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover is the answer aimed squarely at the owner who drives the CRZ hard on the road and takes it to a trackday twice a year.

This is the kit to specify if you want a CRZ that feels planted on a fast A-road, holds an attitude through a long sweeper at Cadwell or Anglesey, and still copes with a Monday-morning commute. The 36-way damping range is the headline reason – it lets one chassis cover both jobs without ever asking you to live with a setup that only really works on smooth tarmac.

What this coilover does for your 2010-2016 Honda CRZ ZF1

Drop the ride height to kill the factory wheel-gap, recover the front-end response that the soft OE springs blunt, and you have a CRZ that finally turns in the way the short wheelbase always promised. The 36-way damping adjustment is the spec that earns its keep here: wind it soft for the road and the Super Sport absorbs broken surfaces without the chatter you get from cheaper coilovers, then click it firmer for a track session and the body control sharpens up enough to lean on the front tyres mid-corner. Ride-height adjustment lets you set the rake to suit your tyre and wheel choice – important on the ZF1, where the standard arches are tight and getting the stance right matters as much as the damping does. On a hybrid kerb weight of around 1,200 kg, the gains in turn-in bite and mid-corner composure are immediate and obvious from the driver’s seat.

About the Super Sport coilover

XYZ Racing’s Super Sport sits in the range as the dual-purpose damper – engineered specifically so a single setup handles weekend race use and daily driving without forcing a compromise on either side. The damper construction is built to take the abuse of poor road surfaces and bumps that would have a track-focused coilover crashing into its bump stops, while the 36-way adjustment dial gives you the breadth to firm everything up when you need it. Ride-height adjustment is independent of damper preload, which is the correct way to do it and means you can corner-weight the car without changing the spring rate. The use case XYZ themselves describe is clear: a high-performance damper that meets different road conditions – exactly what the CRZ owner running one set of wheels for road and trackday needs.

Fitment for the Honda CRZ (2010-2016)

This kit is specified for the ZF1 chassis CRZ across the full 2010 to 2016 production span. That covers the early 1.5 IMA cars through to the facelifted models with the revised hybrid system and the manual gearbox option that the enthusiast market gravitated to.

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Configure your Super Sport spec for the ZF1 below – pick your damping baseline and ride-height drop and build the kit to suit how you actually drive the car.