XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Nissan ALTIMA U13 4WD 1993-1997

The U13-generation Altima’s 4WD layout was built for loose and mixed-surface stages, not the smooth Tarmac rally roads it’s often pressed into today – and that mismatch is exactly what this coilover is built to correct. On closed-road tarmac work, uneven camber changes and mid-corner surface breaks load the front-drive components hard, and a chassis this old needs a damper that can shrug that off without upsetting the four-wheel-drive balance.

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ Racing’s damper for exactly that discipline: sealed-stage work on broken, patched, and off-camber tarmac rather than the billiard-table surface of a circuit. It’s built to take a hard hit from a pothole or a ridge without the body kicking sideways, and to keep the tyre loaded through the compression rather than skipping off it.

What this coilover does for your 1993-1997 Nissan ALTIMA U13 4WD

Fitted to the U13 4WD, the Tarmac Rally’s damping is set up to absorb the sharp edge of broken tarmac – kerbs, patched repairs, camber steps mid-corner – without transmitting that shock straight into the chassis. That matters on a stage car where you’re carrying speed into corners you’ve only seen once or twice: the damper suppresses body movement on the bump stroke so the tyre stays in contact with the road instead of skating across it. More contact patch under load means more usable traction out of the 4WD system, which is where this car actually makes its time. The result on the road is a car that settles quicker after a compression and holds its line through the next input, rather than still working through the last one.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

This is a damper built specifically around Tarmac Rally use – stage surfaces that are uneven, patched, and inconsistent rather than smooth. The valving is tuned to absorb impacts from larger bumps and surface breaks without the body kicking or stepping sideways, which is the failure mode a road-biased coilover shows the moment it meets a rally stage rather than a circuit. That control keeps the tyre’s contact patch loaded through the impact instead of unloading it, which is where the traction gain comes from. XYZ Racing has carried this valving over directly from its Tarmac Rally programme, so the settings reflect what the team has run on actual stages rather than a generic road-and-track compromise.

Fitment for the Nissan ALTIMA U13 4WD (1993-1997)

This kit is built for the Nissan Altima U13, 4WD chassis code NI11, covering the 1993 to 1997 model years. Confirm your car matches the U13 4WD platform before ordering, as coilover geometry and mounting differ from front-drive Altima variants of the same era.

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