XYZ Racing Racing Spec Coilovers — Mitsubishi STARION welding 1982-1990

The MT34 Starion’s turbocharged straight-six sits nose-heavy over a live rear axle, a layout that punishes soft standard damping the moment you load the car into a fast corner. XYZ Racing’s Racing Spec coilover replaces that factory compliance with a chassis that actually communicates what the tyres are doing mid-corner.

This is the range built for drivers taking a Starion onto a circuit, not just firming up the commute. Every setting on this damper traces back to direct involvement in circuit racing including WTCC, so the valving philosophy comes from lap-time development rather than a showroom ride-comfort brief.

What this coilover does for your 1982-1990 Mitsubishi Starion Welding

Fitted to the MT34, the Racing Spec kit sharpens turn-in by controlling the nose-dive that a factory-spec Starion suffers under brakes, keeping the front tyres loaded evenly as you trail-brake into slower corners. The monotube-style damper construction resists the fade that plagues twin-tube units once track temperatures climb through a session, so the third and fourth laps feel the same as the first. Ride height and corner balance become tools you can actually use, letting you correct the Starion’s rear-biased weight transfer under power rather than fighting it. On a chassis this old, consistent damping control also does the quiet work of protecting the rest of the suspension and drivetrain mounts from the shock loading that worn factory dampers pass straight through.

About the Racing Spec coilover

Racing Spec sits at the top of XYZ Racing’s coilover range and is built specifically for track and time-attack use, not dual-purpose road driving. Rather than a generic damping curve, the settings come out of real circuit programmes, most notably WTCC, where the demands on a damper are dictated by lap after lap of high-load cornering rather than showroom comfort testing. For Starion owners running genuinely aggressive builds, XYZ Racing also offers a bespoke route: submit details of your car’s upgrades and the circuit you intend to run, and they will produce a custom-valved shock absorber to suit that specific combination. That option exists because a heavily modified MT34 with upgraded turbo, brakes, or aero doesn’t behave like a standard car, and a damper calibrated for the standard car won’t cope. It’s a range built around the idea that serious track work needs damping matched to the car and the circuit, not a one-size-fits-all spring rate.

Fitment for the Mitsubishi Starion Welding (1982-1990)

This Racing Spec coilover kit is built for the Mitsubishi Starion Welding, chassis code MT34, covering the full production run from 1982 to 1990. Confirm your chassis code against your logbook or chassis plate before ordering, as Starion variants across this period carried different suspension mounting points.

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Get the Starion’s nose-heavy turbo chassis working the way a track car should – configure yours below.