XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Audi A5 B8 COUPE 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2007-2016

The B8 A5’s longitudinal quattro layout carries its mass well forward of the front axle, which is a gift on a standing-start launch: get the load to transfer rearward and the four-wheel-drive system hooks up hard. The XYZ Racing Drag Racing coilover for the Audi A5 B8 Coupe 4WD is built around exactly that moment – the first few metres where a 0-400 run is won or lost.

This is a single-purpose setup, not a fast-road compromise. It is tuned to manage front-to-rear weight movement under hard acceleration so the driven tyres load up and bite, cutting wheelspin off the line. Because this fitment is the cancellation kit for the factory electronic damping, it also takes the adaptive dampers out of the equation, giving you fixed, predictable spring and damper behaviour on every pass.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2016 Audi A5 B8 Coupe 4WD

On the line, the difference is traction. The damping is set to encourage rearward weight transfer at launch, pressing the driven tyres into the surface so the quattro driveline can put power down instead of lighting up the contact patch. As speed builds, the stiffer drag-specific rates keep the B8 settled where a soft factory setup would float and wander. Ride height is adjustable, so you can drop the nose to cut frontal lift and set a rake that suits your launch technique. And by cancelling the electronic damping, the kit holds the same firm response run after run rather than letting the adaptive system vary it. The result is a quicker, more repeatable standing start with fewer runs thrown away to wheelspin.

About the Drag Racing coilover

XYZ Racing’s Drag Racing coilover is a specialist item, developed for 0-400 metre standing-start racing across front-wheel-drive, rear-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive cars alike. The defining idea behind the setting is launch-phase weight management: the suspension shifts load onto the driven axle the instant you step off the line, forcing greater compression into the driven tyres. That extra compression is what reduces the dead time of a spinning wheel and gets the car hooked up sooner. From there the rates are chosen to hold the car stable as speed climbs down the strip, rather than chasing ride comfort or cornering balance. For this Audi A5 application the kit ships as a cancellation setup for the car’s electronic damping, so the factory adaptive control is bypassed in favour of the fixed drag tune. It is a focused tool with one job, and the engineering reflects that.

Fitment for the Audi A5 B8 Coupe 4WD (2007-2016)

This kit is matched to the Audi A5 B8 Coupe in 4WD quattro form, chassis code AU24-C, covering the 2007 to 2016 model years. It is supplied as the cancellation-kit variant for cars fitted with factory electronic damping, so the adaptive dampers are removed from the control loop as part of the install. Confirm your chassis code and that your car runs the electronic damping system before ordering.

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If your B8 A5 lives for the strip, this is the suspension built for it – pick your spec and set your ride height in the configurator below.