XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Audi S5 B8 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2007-2016

The B8 S5 carries its mass over the nose: a longitudinally mounted V8 on the early cars, a supercharged 3.0 V6 on the facelift, both sitting ahead of the front-axle line, with quattro feeding drive to all four corners. For 0-400 metre work that layout cuts both ways. Off-the-line traction is strong because there is weight and grip over the front, but the standing-start load transfer has to be controlled or the nose unloads and the car wanders as it squats and accelerates. The XYZ Racing Drag Racing coilover for the Audi S5 B8 4WD is set up around exactly that launch-and-haul job.

This is the cancellation-kit version for cars running Audi’s factory electronic damping. It includes the hardware to stop the dash flagging a suspension fault once the adaptive struts come out, so you keep a clean dashboard while moving to a fixed, drag-focused damper rather than a comfort-biased road setting.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2016 Audi S5 B8 4WD

The payoff lands in the first sixty feet. The damping is tuned to manage how weight moves between the front and rear axles as the S5 launches, keeping load on the driven tyres so they compress and bite instead of scrabbling. On a heavy quattro car that means less wasted wheelspin off the line and a more planted attitude as the revs climb. Through the back half of the run the same firm, controlled damping settles the chassis so the car tracks straight at speed rather than floating on soft factory struts. Ride height is set on the threaded bodies, so you can drop the S5 to a stance that suits both the strip and the drive there.

About the Drag Racing coilover

The Drag Racing series is engineered specifically for 0-400 metre sprints, with settings developed to work across front-, rear- and four-wheel-drive cars. The core idea is managing instantaneous weight transfer: the damper is tuned to shift load front-to-rear according to which wheels are driven, forcing greater compression into the driving tyres at the moment of launch. That loaded contact patch is what reduces the idle, slipping phase where a tyre spins without hooking up, so more of the engine’s output turns into forward motion. Beyond the launch, the same setup is built to hold the car stable as terminal speed rises, where a softer road damper would let a heavy S5 move around. It is a single-purpose drag tool, not a road or track compromise.

Fitment for the Audi S5 B8 4WD (2007-2016)

This kit is specified for the B8 quattro S5, chassis code AU28-1-C, covering model years 2007 to 2016. It is the 4WD application, and this particular variant is the cancellation kit for cars originally fitted with electronic adaptive damping. Confirm your car ran factory electronic dampers before choosing this version.

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Pick your spec and set your ride height in the configurator below to build the Drag Racing kit for your S5.