XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Porsche 964 CARRERA-2 1989-1990

The 964 was the first 911 to drop the old torsion-bar setup for coil springs, and the Carrera-2 badge tells you the rest: drive going to the rear axle only, with that air-cooled 3.6 flat-six slung out behind it. For a standing-start car, that rearward mass is an asset, not a problem – it sits right over the wheels doing the work. This XYZ Racing Drag Racing coilover for the Porsche 964 Carrera-2 is set up to exploit exactly that, built around 0-400 metre runs where the first sixty feet settle the timing slip.

This is not a fast-road or circuit spec. It is a launch tool, tuned to control how the chassis loads its driven tyres off the line and to keep the car settled once it is up to terminal speed.

What this coilover does for your 1989-1990 Porsche 964 Carrera-2

On the hit, the kit drives weight rearward so the 964’s mass presses down on the driven tyres at the moment grip matters most. That bigger contact patch turns crank torque into forward motion instead of wheelspin, which trims the wasted spin time that ruins a sixty-foot figure. With the rear planted, the Carrera-2 hooks up harder and leaves the line cleaner. Further down the strip the same control keeps the body stable at high speed, so the car tracks straight rather than getting light and nervous near the trap.

About the Drag Racing coilover

XYZ Racing designed this series specifically for 0-400 drag work, with applications across front-, rear- and four-wheel-drive cars. The core idea is managed weight transfer: the setting shifts load front-to-rear in the instant of launch so it sits over whichever wheels are putting the power down. Forcing that driven tyre into greater compression builds a larger, harder-working contact patch, which is what cuts the idle spin time before the car actually moves. The same setup then holds the car stable as speed climbs through the run. It is a focused, single-purpose tune rather than a do-everything road kit, and on a rear-drive 964 the geometry works with the platform’s natural rearward bias.

Fitment for the Porsche 964 Carrera-2 (1989-1990)

This kit is matched to the PO09 chassis 964 Carrera-2 across the 1989 to 1990 model years. The Carrera-2 designation confirms the rear-wheel-drive variant, so the launch tuning is set for drive going to the rear axle rather than the Carrera-4’s four-wheel-drive layout.

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