XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Alfa Romeo GT 6 CYL 2003-2010

The Alfa Romeo GT 6 CYL carries its 3.2-litre Busso V6 ahead of the front axle while the gearbox rides on a rear-mounted transaxle, so the chassis loads up differently to a nose-heavy four-cylinder car under braking and over crests. On a tarmac special stage, where smooth asphalt gives way to broken, cambered surfaces within a few hundred metres, that weight distribution needs dampers that can follow the road rather than skip across it.

The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover for the GT 6 CYL is built specifically for sealed-stage tarmac rally use, not fast-road comfort or circuit lapping. It is set up to keep the tyre loaded through mid-corner compressions and mid-speed crests, where a road-biased damper would let the wheel unweight and the car step wide.

What this coilover brings to your 2003-2010 Alfa Romeo GT 6 CYL

Fit this kit to your GT 6 CYL and the most obvious change is how the car deals with a stage surface that is never actually flat. Uneven pavement and mid-corner bumps get absorbed rather than transmitted straight into the chassis, so the nose stays settled under the V6’s weight instead of pattering or deflecting off-line. Sharper hits, the kind of big compression you get crossing a broken crown or a jump on a fast section, are damped so the body doesn’t kick back and unsettle your line for the next turn-in. With the tyre kept in better contact with the road through those events, you get more usable traction to put the Busso V6’s torque down out of slow corners, and the car holds its intended line through faster sections instead of wandering as the surface changes underneath it. The net effect is a chassis that feels planted and predictable stage after stage, which is what lets you actually use the grip that’s there rather than driving around a car that’s fighting the road.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover is purpose-built for the specific abuse of a sealed-stage road surface: broken asphalt, patched sections, crowned country lanes, and the big single hits that come with jumps and crests taken at speed. The damper is tuned to absorb the impact of that uneven pavement without passing the shock straight into the body, and to control the sharper jolts from bigger compressions so the chassis doesn’t bounce off-line. That control is aimed directly at tyre contact – by keeping the wheel tracking the surface instead of skipping, the kit is built to increase the traction you can actually use out of a corner. The result, per XYZ’s own tarmac rally programme, is a car that holds its stability through a stage rather than one that feels loose or reactive as the surface changes. Every damping setting in this kit comes out of XYZ’s own tarmac rally testing, not a generic road-and-track compromise carried over from a different discipline.

Fitment for the Alfa Romeo GT (2003-2010)

This kit is specced for the Alfa Romeo GT 6 CYL, chassis code AL12, covering the 2003 to 2010 production run. It is matched to the V6-engined GT rather than the four-cylinder cars, reflecting the different weight and balance the Busso V6 puts over the front axle. Confirm your GT is the 6-cylinder variant before ordering, as the four-cylinder GT sits on a different spec.

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Spec your Tarmac Rally kit for the GT 6 CYL and configure yours below.