XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Lexus IS 200t/250/300/300h/350 (XE30) (Modified Rear Integrated) (Front FORK) 2013-2026

Sealed-stage tarmac rally throws surface changes at a car that a public road never will: mid-corner camber shifts, patched resurfacing, compressions taken flat where a circuit would have run-off. The XE30-generation Lexus IS carries a long wheelbase and a heavy nose for a rear-driven saloon, so when a stage crest unloads the front axle and then slams it back down, the damper either controls that recovery or the car skips sideways into the next braking zone.

The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built for exactly that scenario rather than for a clean circuit surface. This application uses XYZ’s Modified Rear Integrated damper at the rear axle paired with a front FORK-style unit, a combination specified to work with the IS XE30’s factory multi-link geometry without the compromises a generic strut conversion would introduce.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2026 Lexus IS 200t/250/300/300h/350

Fitted to a 2013-2026 IS, this kit changes how the car absorbs the impact of broken or uneven tarmac: instead of transmitting a big hit straight into the chassis, the damping is tuned to soak up the jolt and keep the body from pitching, which is what actually keeps the tyre in contact with the road rather than skating across it. That matters more on a stage than it does at a track day, because a rally surface won’t give you a second clean lap to find the limit. Owners running the IS 200t or 300 turbo four will notice the front end staying planted under trail-braking into blind corners, while 300h and 350 drivers carrying more weight over the front axle get a car that settles faster after a compression instead of continuing to bob through the next direction change. The result is a chassis that holds a consistent line stage after stage rather than one that reacts differently every time the surface changes underneath it.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing developed the Tarmac Rally line specifically around closed-stage competition, where the damper has to do two jobs a road-going setup never faces together: shrug off big, sudden hits without deflecting the car off-line, and still generate enough mechanical grip to put power down out of a loose or damp hairpin. The valving absorbs the shock of a rough or cratered section of tarmac and stops that impact translating into body movement that unsettles the platform, which in turn keeps the contact patch working and the car stable enough to place accurately. The settings supplied with this kit come directly out of XYZ’s own tarmac rally programme rather than being adapted from a circuit map, which is why the damping character reads firmer over small, repeated inputs and more absorbent over the single big hit than a typical track coilover.

Fitment for the Lexus IS 200t/250/300/300h/350 (XE30) (Modified Rr Integrated) (Frt FORK) (2013-2026)

This kit is specified for the XE30-chassis Lexus IS across the 200t, 250, 300, 300h and 350 range built between 2013 and 2026. It is built to the Modified Rear Integrated rear damper configuration paired with a Front FORK front unit, so confirm your car matches this rear-integration and front-fork specification before ordering rather than a standard strut layout.

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