XYZ Racing Pro Racing Gravel/Snow Coilovers — Audi S1 SPORTBACK 8X (Modified Rear Integrated) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2014-2018

The S1 Sportback 8X carries quattro traction and a stiff little chassis that most owners point at tarmac, but the same platform is what makes it a natural gravel and snow stage car once the standard dampers are out of the equation. XYZ Racing’s Pro Racing Gravel/Snow coilover is built around that use-case specifically: long-travel front and rear units designed to keep the car composed when the surface underneath it is anything but flat.

This kit also carries the cancellation setup for the S1’s electronic damping system, so the factory adaptive dampers are properly replaced rather than left fighting a manual setup in the background. For an 8X headed toward rally or rally-cross work, that’s the difference between a coilover that behaves and one that fights the car’s own ECU.

What this coilover does for your 2014-2018 Audi S1 Sportback

Extended suspension travel front and rear gives the S1 a bigger buffer against compressions and landings than the road-biased dampers XYZ also offers for this chassis, which matters when a rally stage throws a crest or a rutted farm track at quattro’s short wheelbase. The increased volume of suspension oil and nitrogen gas is the other half of the design brief: more fluid and gas means the shock has more thermal capacity to draw on before oil temperature climbs on a long stage, so damping doesn’t fade halfway through a run the way an undersized road unit would. With the electronic damping cancellation kit fitted, the S1’s factory control unit is taken out of the loop entirely, leaving the mechanical adjustment on the coilover itself as the only variable you need to manage trackside. Expect a car that settles quickly after a landing and holds its line over broken surfaces instead of skipping.

About the Pro Racing Gravel/Snow coilover

XYZ built this unit for rally and rally-cross use rather than tarmac circuit driving, which is why the specification differs from the rest of the Pro Racing range. Front and rear travel is stretched beyond road-going lengths specifically to absorb the bigger, less predictable inputs gravel and snow stages produce. The larger oil and nitrogen charge is there to manage heat over a sustained stage rather than a single flying lap, preventing the fluid from cooking and the damping curve from going soft late in a run. Three external adjustment knobs let you tune compression and rebound for the stage surface in front of you, though the small oil-passage design used to keep that adjustment precise can produce a faint noise over big hits – that’s the fluid doing its job through a narrow gallery, not a fault. It’s a coilover engineered around abuse and heat cycling rather than outright spring rate, which is exactly what a loose-surface stage car needs.

Fitment for the Audi S1 Sportback 8X (2014-2018)

Built for the 8X-chassis S1 Sportback, including the Modified Rr Integrated configuration and the cancellation kit for cars fitted with electronic damping from the factory. Covers the full 2014-2018 production run under chassis code AU43-1-C.

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Get the electronic damping cancelled out and the travel your S1 needs for loose surfaces – configure yours below.