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

Drag launches punish a front-wheel-drive car in a way they never trouble a rear-driver: the instant you load the clutch, weight piles onto the rear axle and lifts off the very tyres doing the driving. The Honda Civic Type-R FN2 feels this keenly, its front struts unloading just as the 0-400 clock starts. XYZ Racing’s Drag Racing coilover for the FN2 is built around that single problem.

This is not a fast-road or circuit setup pressed into service. It is a dedicated drag kit, valved and sprung to control how the FN2 shifts its weight off the line and to keep the front contact patches loaded through the first sixty feet, where the run is won or lost.

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

Set up correctly, the kit forces the front tyres into greater compression as the car squats, so the FN2 puts its power down instead of spinning a wheel away from the line. That means a cleaner hook-up, less wheelspin idle time before the car actually moves, and a more repeatable 60-foot. Further down the strip the same control settles the chassis at speed, holding the FN2 stable through the traps rather than going light and nervous as the velocity builds. Ride height drops to lower the centre of gravity, and the adjustment range lets you bias load onto the driven front axle to suit your launch technique and tyre choice.

About the Drag Racing coilover

The Drag Racing series is engineered specifically for 0-400 metre acceleration rather than lap times or back-road comfort. XYZ designed it to suit front-, rear- and four-wheel-drive cars, with the damping and spring strategy aimed at managing weight movement at the moment of launch. The principle is direct: load the driven wheels harder. By controlling how the chassis transfers weight under that first violent throttle application, the setup drives the powered tyres into greater compression, raising grip exactly when wheelspin is most likely. The reward is less time wasted spinning before the car hooks up, and a more planted, stable platform as speed climbs toward the end of the run. On the front-driven FN2 that means keeping mass over the front axle, the opposite of what the standard suspension does as it squats onto its rear torsion beam.

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

This kit is cut for the FN2-generation Honda Civic Type-R, the 2007-2011 three-door built on Honda’s front-wheel-drive Type-R platform. It is a direct fit for that chassis code and year span. Confirm your car is the FN2 rather than the earlier EP3 or the Japan-market FD2 before ordering, as those platforms do not share suspension hardware.

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Choose your spring and ride-height spec and configure your FN2 Drag Racing coilover below.