XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Mazda 626 1987-1992

The GD-generation Mazda 626 sits in an awkward spot for anyone trying to sharpen it up in 2026 – a front-drive saloon with softly-sprung MacPherson struts at the front and a multi-link rear that was clever for its day but has long since gone slack on most surviving cars. The Street Advanced coilover is aimed squarely at owners who want to pull the body control back into shape without turning a daily-usable MA17 into something that hates British B-roads.

This is the entry point in the XYZ Racing range, and on a 1987-1992 626 that is exactly the right place to start. Replace tired OEM dampers, drop the ride height in a controlled way, and recover the steering feel the chassis had when the cars were new.

What this coilover does for your 1987-1992 Mazda 626

The damping is 30-way adjustable, so you can wind it soft enough to live with the 626’s long-travel ride over expansion joints and broken tarmac, then firm it up for a Sunday drive or an MOT-day photoshoot. Height is adjustable independently of spring preload via the lower bracket, which matters on the MA17 because dropping a 1980s saloon onto bumpstops kills the rear multi-link’s ability to actually do its job. Spring rates are matched to the kerb weight of the 626 rather than the heavier Capella variants, so the nose stops diving into roundabouts and the rear stops floating on motorway crests. You get a tauter, flatter car that still soaks up town speed bumps without rattling the dash trim loose.

About the Street Advanced coilover

The Street Advanced uses a twin-tube damper body with 30 clicks of compression-and-rebound adjustment on a single dial, sitting below the Circuit Master and Super Sport in XYZ Racing’s hierarchy. Construction is mild-steel bodied with a powder-coated finish, paired with linear springs sized for road use rather than the stiffer rates you’d find on the track-focused kits. Top mounts on the front struts retain rubber bushing where the platform originally specified rubber, preserving NVH characteristics that matter on a 35-year-old saloon. The lower bracket allows ride-height adjustment without preloading the spring, which is the correct way to set up any coilover for a car that still needs to behave on real roads. Damping range has been calibrated for street and occasional spirited driving, not circuit lap times.

Fitment for the Mazda 626 (1987-1992)

This kit is for the GD-chassis Mazda 626, internally coded MA17, covering the 1987 to 1992 model years across saloon, hatch and coupe bodystyles on the front-drive platform. It is not a fit for the earlier GC or later GE 626 – those cars have different strut geometry and turret spacing.

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