XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Honda CIVIC TYPE-R FN2 2007-2011

The FN2 Civic Type R left the factory firmly sprung but underdamped, and on a broken British B-road that combination shows: float on the way into a corner, then a busy, skittish rear over mid-corner bumps thanks to the torsion-beam rear axle. The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover for the Honda Civic Type-R FN2 (2007-2011) is built to put the damping back under control without forcing you into a one-setting track compromise.

It carries 720 ways of damping adjustment, which is the whole point of the Street Advanced badge: one car that copes with the Monday commute and a Cadwell track day in the same week. You set the rebound and bump to suit the road in front of you rather than living with whatever Honda signed off in 2007.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2011 Honda Civic Type-R FN2

The 720-way damping range lets you run a softer setting for daily miles, then firm things up before a session so the K20Z4 can be wrung out to the VTEC crossover without the body lagging behind your inputs. Height adjustment pulls the slightly leggy factory stance down and closes the arch gap, which lowers the centre of gravity and sharpens turn-in on a chassis that understeers from the showroom. Better damped body control over that torsion-beam rear means the back axle stops hopping and stays planted under trail-braking, so you can carry more speed and trust the front to bite. The net feel is a Type R that finally matches its firm spring rates with the wheel control to use them.

About the Street Advanced coilover

The Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s most popular kit and the one most owners reach for first, refined by the company’s engineering team over several seasons of development. It has been run and validated in international competition before reaching the road catalogue, which is why the spec leans on durability as much as outright stiffness. The defining feature is the 720-step damping adjustment, giving a genuinely usable spread from comfortable road compliance through to track-firm control on a single set of hardware. It is built specifically for the road-plus-occasional-circuit owner rather than the dedicated race car, which is exactly the brief most FN2 drivers have. Height adjustment is part of the package, so corner balance and stance are set to the car and the use, not fixed at a guess.

Fitment for the Honda Civic Type-R FN2 (2007-2011)

This kit is matched to the FN2-generation Honda Civic Type R built from 2007 to 2011, the UK and European three-door hatch with the torsion-beam rear axle. It is a direct-fit application for that chassis across the model run, so no fabrication or guesswork on platform is required.

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Set your height and damping to suit the way you actually drive the FN2 – configure your spec below.