XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — BMW 6 SERIES E64 8 CYL 2004-2010

The E64 6 Series carries a lot of car over its front axle – a V8, a long bonnet, and a convertible structure that flexes more than the coupe underneath it shares its bones with. Stock dampers on a car this size and this old tend to feel loose and wallowy long before the tyres run out of grip, especially once the factory bushes and mounts have racked up 15-plus years of wear. The Super Sport coilover kit for the 8-cylinder E64 addresses that directly, giving you a way to firm up body control on a car that was never short on power but has always needed help keeping its mass in check through direction changes.

This is a fast-road and weekend track-day setup, not a full race kit, so the goal is control without turning the E64 into something unpleasant to drive to the circuit and back. Ride height adjustment lets you correct the nose-heavy stance that comes from carrying a V8 over the front wheels, and the damping range gives you somewhere to go as you find out what the chassis actually wants once it’s properly supported.

What this coilover does for your 2004-2010 BMW 6 SERIES E64

Fit this kit and the E64’s front end stops diving under braking the way it does on tired factory struts, which matters on a car heavy enough that unchecked dive eats into front tyre contact patch right when you need it most. The 36-way damping adjustment means you can soften things for a motorway cruise and wind in more control before a track session, rather than living with one compromise setting all year. Ride height adjustment corrects the factory rake and lets you dial out the slightly nose-down stance that’s common on high-mileage E64s with sagged front springs. Cornering support improves too – with the body kept flatter through direction changes, the big coupe (or convertible) stops leaning onto its outside dampers and starts using more of the tyre’s contact patch through a fast sweeper. None of this changes what the V8 delivers in a straight line, but it changes how confidently you can use that power out of a corner.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is built to remove the harshness that shows up on rough British B-roads and motorway expansion joints, without sacrificing the control a heavier, older platform like the E64 needs. It’s a coil-over strut design with height adjustment separate from spring preload, so ride height doesn’t have to move every time you change the corner balance. The headline spec is 36-way damping adjustment, giving a wide enough range to run soft for daily comfort and progressively firmer for a track session, all from external adjusters rather than swapping components. XYZ built this range for exactly the split-use case the E64 needs – a car that’s still driven on the road but occasionally sees a track day – so the damper is tuned to work across both rather than being biased hard toward one or the other. It’s positioned as a step up from a basic lowering kit but a step below a dedicated track-only setup, which suits an E64 owner who wants sharper handling without giving up the GT car’s usability.

Fitment for the BMW 6 SERIES (2004-2010)

This kit is built for the BMW 6 Series E64, chassis code BM46, across the 2004 to 2010 production run – covering the 8-cylinder V8 cars specifically. Confirm your car falls within this year range and carries the correct engine variant before ordering, as coilover geometry is matched to the E64’s specific strut mounts and subframe.

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Configure your ride height and damping settings for this exact E64 spec below.