XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Mazda RX8 SE3P 2003-2008

The RX8 SE3P arrived from the factory with one of the best front-engine, rear-drive chassis balances of its era – 50:50 weight distribution, a Wankel sitting behind the front axle line, and a multi-link rear that rewards a driver who knows how to load it. What it did not arrive with was damping that holds up to repeated tarmac stage abuse, and the OE suspension geometry tends to go vague at the very point an RX8 driver wants the chassis to commit. That is the gap this kit fills.

XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover is built for sealed-surface stage work and fast B-road pace, where the chassis is being asked to absorb mid-corner intrusions without losing its line. For an SE3P running on sticky tarmac rubber, that means body control under braking into hairpins, traction out of slow corners on the rear axle, and a front end that still tells you what the contact patch is doing on a damp ascent.

What this coilover does for your 2003-2008 Mazda RX8 SE3P

Drop a Tarmac Rally kit into an SE3P and the first thing that changes is the secondary ride – the high-frequency stuff that the OE damper smears together gets resolved into discrete information your hands and the seat can read. Spring rates appropriate to a 1,310 kg rear-drive coupe stop the nose diving on trail-braking, which lets you carry the Wankel deeper into the corner without scrubbing speed off the front tyre. Ride height is independently adjustable from spring preload, so corner-weighting an RX8 on a flat patch becomes a tuning exercise rather than a compromise. The damping range covers a working road setting and a stiffer stage setting without swapping parts.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ’s sealed-surface stage damper – a monotube design with separated spring preload and ride-height adjustment, so altering one does not unwind the other. Damping is single-adjustable across a wide click range, giving a usable spread between compliant fast-road and tied-down stage settings. Pillowball top mounts keep camber inputs honest at the strut tops, where rubber bushings would normally let the geometry walk under hard lateral load. The kit is built around the SE3P’s specific strut lengths and lower mount geometry, with spring rates chosen for tarmac rally use on a rear-drive coupe of this mass.

Fitment for the Mazda RX8 (2003-2008)

This kit is built specifically for the SE3P chassis – the four-door coupe RX8 produced from 2003 to 2008, covering both the 192PS and 231PS Renesis variants. Strut lengths, lower mount geometry and spring perch positions are matched to the SE3P platform. Confirm your year and chassis code before ordering; later facelift cars sit on the same SE3P platform but trim-specific differences are worth a sanity check.

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