XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Audi S4 B5 4WD 1997-2002

The B5-generation S4 carries its twin-turbo V6 ahead of the front axle, and the quattro driveline adds hardware exactly where a chassis least wants extra mass – out front, pushing the nose wide the moment you load it up mid-corner. A stock damper on a car like this is fighting a losing battle between controlling that weight transfer and keeping the ride usable on UK roads. XYZ Racing’s Super Sport coilover kit is built to do both at once, with height-adjustable, 36-way dampers in place of a fixed factory compromise.

Super Sport sits between full-race stiffness and stock softness, which suits how most S4 B5 owners actually use the car – a fast B-road on Saturday, a track day a few times a year, the daily commute in between. It’s a coilover kit built around that mixed-use brief rather than one extreme or the other.

What this coilover does for your 1997-2002 Audi S4 B5 4WD

Dropping the ride height on the S4 B5 lowers the centre of gravity right where the nose-heavy quattro layout needs it most, tightening turn-in and cutting the amount of dive the front end shows under braking into a corner. The 36-way damping adjustment means you can run the front end firmer to control that mass transfer without turning the rear into a jackhammer over broken tarmac, since front and rear can be tuned independently to match how the S4’s weight is actually distributed. Because ride height is independently adjustable from spring preload, you can correct the S4’s factory nose-down stance without changing the spring rate you’ve chosen for the road or track. On a car this heavy through the front end, that separation between height and stiffness is what stops a "track" setup from beating up the daily drive.

About the Super Sport coilover

Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s damper built to take the harshness out of poor road surfaces without giving up control when the pace picks up. It carries 36 damping positions across the adjustment range, giving a wide enough spread to move from a comfort-biased setting for daily use to a firmer setting for a track session, rather than being locked to one fixed valving. Ride height is adjustable independently of that damping curve, so the S4 can be set to sit correctly for its wheel and tyre package without touching the compression or rebound tune. XYZ Racing designed the kit to cover both ends of the use case, from a car doing daily miles to one seeing a weekend on circuit, without needing a separate set of dampers for each. On the S4 B5, that range matters more than on a lighter front-driven car, given how much weight the front end is asked to control.

Fitment for the Audi S4 B5 4WD (1997-2002)

This kit is built for the B5-generation Audi S4 4WD, chassis code AU14-1, covering the 1997 to 2002 production run. Confirm your car matches this chassis code and model year before ordering, as B5-platform variants changed spec across the run.

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Spec your ride height and damping to suit how you actually drive the S4 – configure yours below.