XYZ Racing Racing Spec Coilovers — BMW 2 SERIES F87 M2 (excl. M2C) (Modified Rear Integrated) 2016-2021

The F87 M2’s short wheelbase and rear-wheel-drive layout give it a rotation-happy character that the standard car’s factory dampers were never built to exploit past a fast-road pace. Racing Spec takes that chassis to a genuine circuit setup, with damping settings drawn from XYZ Racing’s direct participation in touring car racing, including WTCC, rather than road-car development work.

This is the range XYZ Racing points serious circuit and time-attack customers toward once they’ve outgrown fast-road coilovers, ahead of the Super Sport and Top Sport ranges in the line-up. For a BMW 2 Series F87 M2 (excl. M2C) that’s booked in for track days rather than the school run, it’s built around that specific use case rather than a dual-purpose compromise.

What this coilover does for your 2016-2021 BMW 2 Series F87 M2 (excl. M2C)

Fitted to the M2, Racing Spec keeps the chassis composed through the direction changes and trail-braking loads that a short-wheelbase, rear-driven BMW generates on circuit, where softer road-biased springs let the body roll and the nose push wide mid-corner. The monotube-style construction typical of XYZ’s racing dampers is built to resist the heat build-up of back-to-back sessions rather than fading after a handful of hot laps. Ride height is adjustable independently of the damper settings, so you can set the M2’s stance and corner weights for a specific circuit without touching the compression and rebound tune. The result is a car that turns in with less delay and puts its power down out of slow corners with less of the rear-end movement that catches out drivers running softer setups.

About the Racing Spec coilover

Racing Spec is XYZ Racing’s dedicated circuit-racing damper, built around settings taken directly from the team’s own racing programme, including WTCC entries, rather than adapted from a road product. For heavily modified F87 M2s running aggressive aero, wider tyres, or other A-class racing car upgrades, XYZ can also produce a bespoke shock absorber for the individual car: send over details of what else has been fitted and the circuits you plan to run, and the damper can be built around that specification rather than a generic off-the-shelf tune. Off the shelf, this Racing Spec kit is the closest XYZ gets to a factory racing setup for a road-registered M2, aimed squarely at drivers doing repeat track sessions rather than the occasional trackday.

Fitment for the Bmw 2 Series F87 M2 (excl. M2C) (2016-2021)

This kit is built for the F87-generation BMW 2 Series M2, chassis code BM83, covering the 2016 to 2021 model years and excluding the M2 Competition (M2C). It’s specified with XYZ’s modified, rear-integrated mounting for this chassis, rather than a generic bolt-on adapter, so the rear end locates correctly under the loads a circuit session puts through it.

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