XYZ Racing Gravel Rally Coilovers — Subaru XV GP 4WD 2012-2017

The Subaru XV GP’s raised crossover stance and permanent symmetrical AWD load a damper differently to a stripped-out saloon: wheel travel has to soak up a rut before torque transfer through the diff turns it into a shock through the chassis. The XYZ Racing Gravel Rally coilover for the XV GP 4WD (2012-2017) answers that with an inverted-tube design and long stroke, long spring travel built for sandstone, snow and silt rather than tarmac.

This is a gravel-stage kit first: the priority is keeping the wheel in contact with broken ground at speed, not chasing body roll numbers for a circuit. On an XV GP running rally or rallycross stages, that means damping that survives repeated high-speed compressions without the spring rate fading run after run through a stage.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2017 Subaru XV GP 4WD

Fit this to a 2012-2017 XV GP 4WD and the biggest change you’ll feel is composure over broken surfaces the standard suspension simply absorbs by going soft. The long-stroke damper keeps the wheel tracking the ground through compressions that would otherwise bottom out a road-biased kit, which matters on the XV GP because its symmetrical AWD sends torque to whichever corner has grip – if that corner’s unloaded because the damper’s out of travel, the diff cannot do its job properly. Spring rates carried over from XYZ’s rally programme mean the car settles quickly after a landing or a big compression instead of pattering, so the AWD system gets a stable platform to put power down through. Over washboard gravel and rutted tracks, ride quality genuinely improves against the factory XV GP setup, simply because the damper is doing work the standard unit was never speced to handle.

About the Gravel Rally coilover

XYZ Racing built the Gravel Rally coilover specifically for rally and rallycross competition, where road surface is the most punishing of any motorsport discipline the brand covers. The design centres on an inverted-tube damper body, chosen because it copes better with the mixed abuse of sandstone, snow and silt than a conventional upright tube. Stroke length and spring length are both extended well beyond a road or track kit, giving the damper room to absorb chassis vibration from washboard surfaces and to shrug off the compression spikes of landing hard after a jump or crest at speed. That extra travel also has to survive extreme cornering loads without losing consistency, since rally stages hit a chassis with G-force from angles a circuit rarely produces. XYZ does not set spring rates on paper alone – every rate offered in this range has been run and adjusted by an active rally racing team before it reaches the catalogue, so the numbers reflect what held up over a stage rather than a bench test.

Fitment for the Subaru XV GP 4WD (2012-2017)

This kit is specced for the Subaru XV GP chassis (SU20) built between 2012 and 2017, covering the 4WD variant as sold in that generation. Confirm your XV is the GP-generation crossover rather than a later model before ordering, as damper length and mounting points differ between generations.

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Every spring rate in this Gravel Rally line has already been proven on stage by a rally team – pick your rate and build yours below.