XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Audi S5 B8 4WD 2007-2016

The S5 B8’s quattro layout starts life nose-heavy, with the longitudinal V6 or V8 sitting ahead of the front axle. Get the launch right and that mass moves rearward fast enough to load the rear differential properly; get it wrong and the car either bogs off the line or breaks traction unevenly across all four corners as the torque splits between front and rear.

XYZ Racing’s Drag Racing coilover for the Audi S5 B8 4WD is built around that weight transfer rather than fighting it. It gives you a suspension platform set up for repeated 0-400m runs, where the priority is getting drive down cleanly the instant the lights go green – not lateral grip through a corner.

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

Fitted to a 2007-2016 S5 B8, this setup lets you set ride height and damping specifically for launch behaviour rather than road manners. That matters on a quattro car because the S5’s all-wheel-drive system is already fighting to put power down through four contact patches at once – suspension that manages weight transfer correctly means less wasted energy through wheelspin and a more consistent 60-foot time run after run. You get a firmer, more controlled front end during the initial transfer phase, which keeps the nose settled instead of ballooning upward and unloading the front tyres. At the rear, the geometry is set to load the tyres progressively as weight shifts back, rather than dumping it all at once and breaking traction. For a car that’s already sending drive to all four wheels, that control over how and when weight moves is the difference between a clean pass and a messy one.

About the Drag Racing coilover

This coilover is built specifically for 0-400m drag racing, and it works across front-, rear- and all-wheel-drive platforms including quattro cars like the S5. The core idea is controlling how weight shifts between the front and rear axles the instant the car launches, rather than letting it happen on its own. On the S5’s four-wheel-drive layout, that means the setup can be configured to send more of the transferred weight toward whichever end of the car needs it most for that specific drivetrain, increasing compression through the driven tyres. More compression means more contact patch, which cuts down the amount of time the wheels spend spinning free before they hook up. The net effect is a car that settles into stable, planted acceleration sooner after the launch, rather than fighting for grip through the first part of the run. It’s a setup built around one job – getting a heavy, torque-laden car off the line and keeping it composed as speed builds.

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

This coilover is built for the Audi S5 B8, chassis code AU28-1, covering the 2007 to 2016 production run. It’s specific to the 4WD quattro variant of the B8 platform, so confirm your S5 carries the AU28-1 chassis code before ordering.

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Built for a car that already puts power to all four corners, this kit is about making that power usable off the line – configure yours below.