XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Alfa Romeo 145 TS 1994-2001

The 145 Twin Spark is a chassis that rewards commitment and punishes laziness – a front-driver with a willing four-cylinder, a torsion-beam rear that goes light over crests, and a kerb weight low enough that spring rate decisions actually matter. The Tarmac Rally coilover is the spec to fit if you’re using a 145 TS the way Alfa Corse intended: closed-road stages, sealed-surface special stages, hillclimbs, and the occasional sprint event where the surface is broken but never loose.

Where the Top Sport sits on a circuit and the Gravel Rally floats over loose, the Tarmac Rally lives in the middle ground that 145 owners actually drive on. Long travel for British B-road camber changes, damping that controls the rear axle when it unloads, and a height window that keeps the front splitter off the apex kerb.

What this coilover does for your 1994-2001 Alfa Romeo 145 TS

On a 145 TS the front end is doing most of the work – steering, driving, braking – and stock dampers give up after a couple of stage miles. The Tarmac Rally fits a 30-way adjustable damping range that lets you tune compression and rebound together, so the nose stops diving into apexes while the rear still settles between corners. Ride height is adjustable independently of spring preload, which matters on a 145 because the standard ride height was set for European motorway camber, not UK rally tarmac. The result is a car that turns in without scrubbing the outside front tyre, holds a line under throttle, and stops bottoming out over the mid-corner bumps that throw a torsion-beam rear off line. You can still drive it to the start ramp on Sunday morning.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ Racing’s sealed-surface stage spec – monotube damper bodies, pillowball top mounts on the front struts, and a spring rate window biased toward tarmac stage use rather than gravel float. The 30-way damper adjustment is a single knob per corner controlling both bump and rebound on a fixed curve, which makes setup changes between stages quick enough to actually do in a service halt. Spring rates are matched to the 145’s front-heavy layout, and the damper internals are rebuildable – send them back when they tire rather than buying a new set. Construction is a CNC-machined aluminium lower with a steel damper body, and the threaded collars run on the lower body so you can drop height without losing spring travel.

Fitment for the Alfa Romeo 145 (1994-2001)

This kit is built specifically for the 145 Twin Spark across the full 1994-2001 production run, covering the early 1.4/1.6/1.8/2.0 TS variants on the type-930 platform. The fronts are MacPherson struts with pillowball tops; the rears are dampers paired with the original torsion-beam location. Confirm your shell hasn’t been modified for a Q4 rear setup before ordering.

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Spring rate and damper preload options are listed in the configurator – pick your spec below.