XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Audi A3 SPORTBACK 8V Φ55 (Rear Multi-Link Suspension) (Cancellation Kit for ElectronicDamping) 2012-2020

An A3 Sportback fitted with Audi’s electronic adaptive damping was never built with a start line in mind, and that’s exactly why this kit ships with the cancellation hardware needed to remove the factory system from the equation. Once the electronic damping is out, the car answers to a set of dampers and springs chosen for one job: getting weight onto the rear tyres the instant the clutch drops or the line locks release.

This is the XYZ Racing Drag Racing coilover, built for 0-400m runs rather than circuit lapping or road comfort, and it’s spec’d here for the A3 Sportback 8V’s Φ55 strut body and rear multi-link layout. On a chassis that spends most of its life understeering gently into a roundabout, that’s a very different brief – and the setup reflects it.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2020 Audi A3 Sportback

The immediate change is how the car behaves in the first tenth of a second off the line. Ride height and spring rate can be set to load the rear axle harder under launch, which pushes more weight into the rear contact patch through the multi-link geometry and cuts down the wheel-idle you’d otherwise see as the tyre struggles to find grip. Because the factory electronic damping is cancelled outright rather than left to intervene mid-run, the platform doesn’t fight the launch by softening or stiffening on its own logic partway down the strip. On the Φ55 strut, that also means a stiffer, more direct mounting point for the damper itself, so the energy from a hard launch goes into forward drive rather than strut flex. The result is a car that settles into its stance under load and stays there for the run, rather than porpoising as weight shifts back and forth.

About the Drag Racing coilover

This coilover series is built specifically around 0-400m drag racing, and it doesn’t pretend to be a dual-purpose road-and-track product. The design lets the car’s front-to-rear weight distribution be deliberately shifted at the moment of launch, so the driven wheels get pressed into the tarmac harder and the tyre achieves greater compression against the surface. That’s the mechanism behind reducing idle wheelspin off the line. The same setup is credited with improving stability once the car is at speed, which matters as much at the far end of a run as it does at the start. It’s a chassis-specific application of a concept XYZ Racing uses across FWD, RWD and 4WD drag applications, adapted here to the A3 Sportback’s own strut and suspension hardware.

Fitment for the Audi A3 Sportback (2012-2020)

This kit is built for the Audi A3 Sportback 8V, chassis code AU12-2-C, covering the 2012-2020 production run with the Φ55 strut diameter and rear multi-link suspension layout. It includes the cancellation kit required for cars fitted with Audi’s electronic damping system, replacing that control with the fixed drag-racing valving above. Confirm your car uses the rear multi-link setup and electronic damping before ordering, as both are specific to this part number.

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Configure the spec for your A3 Sportback below to match this kit to your exact chassis and damping setup.