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

The B8 S5’s permanent-four-wheel-drive layout and front-mounted 4.2 V8 (or later supercharged 3.0 TFSI) sit a long way over the nose, and that mass is what every drift setup on this chassis has to fight before the rear axle can even start to talk. The Drift Spec coilover is built to wrestle that front weight into a usable angle, then keep the rear settled enough that the driver – not the chassis – decides when the slide ends.

This kit ships with the cancellation hardware for the factory Audi Magnetic Ride / electronic damping system, so the B8’s adaptive ECU stops throwing fault codes the moment the OE dampers come off. It’s a competition-oriented coilover for a chassis that was never intended to drift from the factory, and that’s the whole point of fitting it.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2016 Audi S5

Dropped onto the B8 S5 with a sensible bump stroke set, the chassis stops fighting itself in the transition. Initiation becomes a single, deliberate input rather than a wrestle with body roll, and the front end finally bites where you point it instead of pushing wide on entry. The lowered centre of gravity tightens the response to throttle and steering corrections mid-slide, which is the window where a B8 normally feels heavy and reluctant. With the electronic damping cancellation kit in place, the dash stays clean and the suspension behaves exactly the way the spring and damper rates are written to behave – not the way an OE algorithm thinks a luxury coupe should ride. On a prepped surface the car holds a longer, cleaner angle; on rougher tarmac the rear stays planted long enough to actually feed in correction.

About the Drift Spec coilover

The Drift Spec is engineered specifically for competitive drifting rather than retuned from a circuit kit. The geometry of the spring and damper rates is set up to stabilise the body during high-speed turn-in, which is the moment a heavy 4WD coupe like the S5 wants to roll onto its outside front and bleed angle. Once that initial transition is controlled, the kit is configured to extend the achievable angle and let the driver hold a steeper, more committed line. Ride-height adjustment is paired with deliberate bump stroke so the chassis works through its travel without crashing into the bump stops on a kerb hit or a rough exit. The cancellation kit in this part number is what makes the Drift Spec actually usable on a B8 – without it, the factory adaptive damping module sees the new dampers as a fault and lights up the dash.

Fitment for the Audi S5 (2007-2016)

This kit fits the B8 S5 coupe across the full 2007 to 2016 production run, chassis code AU28-1-C, in 4WD form. The "Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping" variant is the version to order for any S5 that left the factory with Audi Magnetic Ride or the adaptive damper option – it removes the electronic damping fault from the cluster once the OE units are swapped out.

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