XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Mitsubishi EVO1-3 4WD 1992-1996

The Evo I-III’s permanent four-wheel-drive powertrain sends drive to all four corners from a standstill, which is exactly the load case a 0-400m pass puts through the chassis. XYZ Racing’s Drag Racing coilover for the Mitsubishi EVO1-3 4WD is set up around that launch moment, not around the cornering loads a circuit-focused coilover would prioritise.

Where a road or track spring rate is chosen to balance grip mid-corner, this kit is tuned to manage weight transfer rearward under hard acceleration, loading the driven axle the instant the clutch drops. That is the difference between a car that bogs off the line and one that hooks up and goes.

What this coilover does for your 1992-1996 Mitsubishi EVO1-3 4WD

Set up correctly, the EVO1-3 4WD plants harder off the line instead of spinning through first gear. Because the coilover lets you shift front-to-rear weight distribution to suit where the chassis actually needs load, you can put more of the car’s mass onto the driven wheels the moment power goes down, which is what turns wheelspin into forward drive. Less idle time at the tyre means a shorter, more repeatable 60 foot time, and a chassis that stays settled through the top end of a run rather than moving around under you as speed builds. For a platform that was already an AWD rally tool from the factory, this setup is about redirecting that traction advantage into a straight line.

About the Drag Racing coilover

XYZ Racing’s Drag Racing range is built specifically for 0-400m straight-line runs, and the same design works across FWD, RWD and 4WD platforms because the geometry that matters sits at the driven axle, not the front. What separates it from a general fast-road or track coilover is a ride-height and preload setup that lets you deliberately load the transmission’s drive wheels at launch, forcing greater compression into those tyres and cutting the time they spend spinning free before they bite. On a 4WD car like the EVO1-3, that same weight-transfer principle applies across both driven axles, and the outcome the kit is chasing is stability once you’re through the launch and into the run, when an unsettled chassis costs you just as much time as a slow start. It is a coilover built around one job: getting power onto the ground for a few hundred metres, consistently, pass after pass.

Fitment for the Mitsubishi EVO1-3 4WD (1992-1996)

This kit is specced to the Mitsubishi EVO1-3 4WD, chassis code MT17, built 1992 to 1996. It fits the permanent all-wheel-drive layout shared across the Evo I, II and III generations covered under this code, and is set up to work with front and rear driven axles rather than a single powered end.

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Built for one purpose and one axle-load problem at a time, this is the Drag Racing spec for the EVO1-3 4WD, configure yours below to match your car and your class.