XYZ Racing Racing Spec Coilovers — Audi S3 SPORTBACK 8V φ55 (Modified Rear Integrated) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2013-2020

The 8V S3 Sportback left the factory with electronically controlled adaptive dampers, and that’s the first problem any serious coilover swap on this car has to solve before it even gets to spring rates. This XYZ Racing Racing Spec kit is built specifically to replace those dampers, and it ships with the cancellation kit that stops the car’s control unit hunting for damping signals from sensors that no longer exist once the passive struts go in.

Underneath that, this is a Racing Spec kit, which puts it at the track and time-attack end of the range rather than the fast-road end. For a quattro Sportback that’s carrying the mass of the AWD driveline low and forward, a damper tuned for circuit loads rather than daily comfort is the right starting point, and the φ55 strut body and modified, rear-integrated geometry are what let it mount cleanly on this specific 8V chassis.

What this coilover brings to your 2013-2020 Audi S3 Sportback

On a quattro platform, load transfer under braking and corner entry has to fight the weight of the front differential and driveshafts as well as the body, and a soft factory damper struggles to keep that mass settled once the pace goes up. Swapping to Racing Spec damping firms up body control through direction changes and under trail braking, which is exactly where the standard adaptive setup runs out of adjustment range on track. Because the kit is height and damping adjustable, you can drop the Sportback’s ride height for a lower centre of gravity while still tuning compression and rebound to suit tyre and circuit rather than accepting one factory-programmed compromise. The rear-integrated, modified mounting means the kit works with this chassis’s actual rear geometry rather than a generic multi-link bracket, so the alignment settings you dial in stay consistent.

About the Racing Spec coilover

XYZ Racing’s Racing Spec damper is developed directly out of circuit racing rather than adapted from a road product afterwards – the settings baked into this unit come from work done in touring car competition, including WTCC entries, so the valving is shaped by lap-time pressure, not a lab bench. For cars carrying heavier modification than a standard Sportback – bigger brakes, wider track, aero – XYZ Racing can also build a bespoke damper around the specific upgrades fitted and the circuit the car will actually run, using the same base platform as this kit. That custom-build route exists precisely because a generic valving curve stops being enough once a car moves further from stock, and it’s worth flagging to XYZ Racing what’s been changed on your S3 and where you’re planning to drive it.

Fitment for the Audi S3 Sportback (2013-2020)

This kit is built for the 8V-generation Audi S3 Sportback, chassis code AU52-C, covering the 2013 to 2020 production run, in the φ55 strut / modified rear-integrated configuration. Because this variant is built around the factory electronic damping system, confirm your car retains that adaptive setup before ordering the cancellation kit alongside it.

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XYZ Racing builds this kit to solve the 8V S3’s factory electronics problem as well as its damping – pick your spec below to configure yours.