XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — BMW 7 SERIES E38 8 CYL (NOT AIR STRUT) 1995-2002

The E38 7 Series’ V8 sits over a nose-heavy chassis that BMW tuned for isolation rather than agility, and on cars built without the factory air-strut rear end, the standard dampers are the one component left doing all the work of controlling that mass through a corner. XYZ Racing’s Street Advanced coilover kit for this 8-cylinder, non-air-strut E38 replaces that factory set-up with a fully height- and damping-adjustable system, built for owners who want to keep the car’s motorway manners intact while giving it body control it never had from the factory.

Street Advanced sits between XYZ’s comfort-biased road kits and its dedicated circuit ranges, aimed at drivers who use the E38 as a daily or fast-road car and want one part that copes with both a motorway cruise and a spirited run without swapping springs in between.

What this coilover does for your 1995-2002 Bmw 7 Series

Independent ride height adjustment on all four corners lets you correct the nose-down stance that comes from carrying a big V8 over the front axle, and drop the car enough to sharpen the stance without resorting to cut springs. The damping range gives you control over how much the E38’s body rolls under load – firm it up before a run through a set of faster corners and the nose stops diving under braking as hard as it does on the factory set-up, then back it off again for the drive home. Because the kit is built specifically for the non-air-strut V8 cars, there’s no fighting a self-levelling system that was never designed to work alongside aftermarket dampers. The result is a 7 Series that still rides like a big BMW should on a motorway, but doesn’t feel like it’s arriving at a corner half a second after the front wheels did.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s best-selling coilover line, refined over several years of in-house development and tested on road cars and at circuits worldwide before it reaches a customer’s driveway. Each kit offers 720 individual damping positions, a far finer adjustment window than a simple soft/firm switch, giving enough range to move from a compliant motorway setting to a genuinely firm track-day setting on the same pair of dampers. It’s built as a dual-purpose kit for normal road use and occasional track days rather than a dedicated race damper, which is why the adjustment range extends further into the comfortable end of the scale than XYZ’s circuit-focused products. For an E38 V8, that breadth matters more than it would on a lighter car, since the kit has to control a heavier chassis at the comfort end of its range while still stiffening up enough to be useful when the road opens up. It’s the line XYZ points owners toward when they want one coilover that covers both jobs rather than a car set up exclusively for one or the other.

Fitment for the Bmw 7 Series (1995-2002)

This kit is built for the BM21-2 chassis – the 8-cylinder Bmw 7 Series E38 built between 1995 and 2002 – and specifically for cars that left the factory on conventional springs and dampers rather than the self-levelling air-strut rear end fitted to some V8 examples. Confirm your car isn’t running the factory air suspension before ordering, since this kit isn’t designed to integrate with it.

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Configure your Street Advanced kit to the E38’s exact spec below and set the car up the way this V8 saloon deserves to be driven.