XYZ Racing Circuit Master Coilovers — Nissan PRIMERA P11 (Rear Bolt Distance φ172) 1998-2002

The Primera P11 is a front-wheel-drive saloon that Nissan itself ran in BTCC through the Super Touring years, and that heritage shows up in how the chassis behaves once you start pushing it – nose-heavy weight transfer under braking, and a rear axle that needs to stay planted rather than skip across kerbs and mid-corner ripples. The XYZ Racing Circuit Master coilover for the P11 is built around that exact requirement: sustained circuit lap-time work, where the suspension has to hold its damping character through session after session rather than one clean lap.

This particular fitment covers the P11 variant with a 172mm rear bolt distance (Φ172), one of two rear-end specifications Nissan used across the P11 range in this period. Matched correctly, the kit lets you address the car’s inherent understeer-under-power characteristic and give the rear end the same level of control the front already has from the factory.

What this coilover does for your 1998-2002 Nissan Primera P11

Circuit Master’s damping range – 9720 individual combinations spread across three external adjustment knobs – means you can separate front and rear behaviour rather than compromising on a single fixed setting. On the P11, that matters most under trail-braking into slower corners, where nose dive needs controlling without stiffening the rear enough to make the back end nervous over bumps mid-corner. Because the range of adjustment is so wide, you can start soft enough for a road-legal ride to and from the circuit and wind the damping up as tyre temperature and track grip build through a session. The result on this chassis is a car that turns in with less of the P11’s characteristic front push and holds its line through direction changes without the rear stepping wide over kerbing.

About the Circuit Master coilover

Circuit Master sits at the top end of XYZ Racing’s competition line-up, alongside the brand’s Racing Spec, Drift Spec and Tarmac Rally dampers, and is developed and shaken down by XYZ’s own racing teams across international circuits rather than on a bench. The headline figure is 9720 possible damping combinations, delivered through three external adjustment knobs so compression and rebound can be tuned independently front and rear. Inside, oil is metered through deliberately small passages within those knobs – a design choice that sharpens the damping response but can produce a faint clicking or ticking noise over larger bumps. That’s a normal side effect of the circuit-focused valving, not a fault, and it’s the trade-off XYZ has made in favour of consistency across a session over outright quietness. For the Nissan Primera P11, that construction translates into a coilover that’s happiest doing repeated hot laps rather than sitting in traffic.

Fitment for the Nissan Primera P11 (1998-2002)

This kit is built for the Nissan Primera P11 (chassis code NI27) from 1998 to 2002, specifically the version with a 172mm rear bolt distance (Φ172). Nissan produced more than one rear hub spec across the P11’s run, so check your car’s rear bolt spacing against this figure before ordering rather than going on model year alone.

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Confirm your P11’s rear bolt spacing against the Φ172 figure above, then configure your Circuit Master spec below to get the damping range built for circuit work onto your Primera.