XYZ Racing Pro Racing Gravel/Snow Coilovers — Hyundai TIBURON 1996-2001

The first-generation Tiburon’s front-drive, nose-led layout was never meant to work a loose stage, where weight pitches onto the front axle and the standard dampers run out of stroke long before the surface stops moving. The XYZ Racing Pro Racing Gravel/Snow coilover for the Hyundai Tiburon (1996-2001) answers that with a longer-travel build and a much larger fluid capacity, so the HY22 chassis keeps its tyres loaded through ruts, crests and snow instead of skating across the top of them.

This is the gravel and rallycross end of the XYZ range, not a fast-road kit pressed into off-tarmac duty. It is set up for sustained abuse on unsealed surfaces, where the front end of a light FWD coupe takes a beating and the damper has to keep working long after a road shock would have faded.

What this coilover does for your 1996-2001 Hyundai Tiburon

The extended travel gives the Tiburon’s front struts room to follow a broken surface, so the driven wheels stay in contact and put power down out of slow corners rather than scrabbling. The bigger oil and gas volume keeps damping force consistent on a long run, which on a nose-heavy FWD car means the front axle stays predictable as the stage goes on instead of going vague when the fluid heats. Three-way adjustment lets you soften the kit for deep gravel or snow and firm it for a harder, drier surface, and the longer buffer distance gives you a margin against bottoming over crests and compressions that would clatter a shorter strut.

About the Pro Racing Gravel/Snow coilover

XYZ designed this damper primarily for rally and rallycross use, and the engineering follows from that. Front and rear travel is extended over the road-going kits to build in a larger buffer that keeps the car settled over big inputs. The headline change is internal volume: the design carries a greater quantity of shock oil and nitrogen gas, which steadies the damper’s behaviour and stops the oil temperature climbing to the point where performance drops away after long, repeated loading. Adjustment runs through three separate knobs. The valving uses a small oil-hole design, so over large bumps the fluid is forced through a narrow passage and you may hear a faint noise as it does – this is normal for the type and not a fault. It is a coilover built for the rough, where surface impacts are part of the job.

Fitment for the Hyundai Tiburon (1996-2001)

This kit is specified for the HY22-chassis Hyundai Tiburon across the 1996 to 2001 model years. Confirm your car falls within that span before ordering; only the fitment data listed here applies.

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Set your damping and ride height for the surface you run, then configure yours below.