XYZ Racing Gravel Rally Coilovers — Porsche CAYMAN 718 (982) GT4 RS 2022-2026

The 982 GT4 RS was tuned for tarmac – a mid-engine flat-six chassis with a low centre of gravity and sharp front-end turn-in that rewards a smooth, high-grip surface. Gravel-stage rally work asks for the opposite: long-travel absorption of unpredictable ruts, crests and washboard sections taken at speed, without the chassis pitching or bottoming out. XYZ Racing’s Gravel Rally coilover is built specifically for that brief rather than adapted from a circuit-focused product.

On a car this precise, fitting a gravel-spec damper is about giving the chassis somewhere to put the wheel travel a rally stage demands, while still keeping the body control the 982 platform is known for on the road. It is the setup for owners taking a GT4 RS into stage rally or rallycross events, not track days.

What this coilover does for your 2022-2026 Porsche Cayman 718 (982) GT4 RS

On loose and broken surfaces, the long-stroke damper and long spring combination keeps the 982’s wheels tracking the ground instead of skipping across it, so vibration from washboard and sharp-edged ruts is absorbed at the corner rather than transmitted straight into the tub. The inverted tube construction is built to keep working as the surface underneath changes – sandstone through one section, snow or silt through the next – without the damper losing consistency. Extended travel also lets the GT4 RS shrug off the compression loads of a fast, bouncy stage and hold its line through hard cornering, where lateral G-force spikes quickly on a mid-engine platform. The result is a car that can carry speed over rough ground instead of being stopped by it.

About the Gravel Rally coilover

The Gravel Rally coilover in the XYZ Racing range is designed around rallycross and gravel-stage rally, the roughest road conditions any damper in the catalogue is asked to handle. Rather than the shorter-stroke tube used in circuit-oriented coilovers, this unit runs an inverted tube layout so it can keep controlling the wheel as ground conditions shift from sandstone to snow to silt within the same stage. Stroke and spring length are both extended well beyond a road or track setup, giving the wheel enough travel to soak up chassis vibration and repeated high-speed impacts on a bouncy, ill-surfaced road. That travel is what lets the car absorb a hard compression or a sudden G-force spike mid-corner without the suspension running out of movement. Every spring rate in the range has been set using data from an actual rally racing team’s programme rather than a desk calculation, so the base tune reflects what a car needs when it is sliding on gravel rather than gripping tarmac.

Fitment for the Porsche CAYMAN 718 (982) GT4 RS (2022-2026)

This kit is built for the 982-chassis Cayman 718 GT4 RS across the 2022-2026 model years. Confirm your build year falls inside that window before ordering, as the coilover geometry is matched to the 982 platform and GT4 RS specification rather than the wider 718 Cayman range.

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If you are taking a 982 GT4 RS off the tarmac and onto a stage, configure yours below and set the spring rate to match the events you are actually running.