XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — BMW 3 SERIES E90 M3 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2007-2011

The E90 M3’s S65 V8 sits high and forward, and on a broken sealed stage that nose loads hard into every compression – kerbs, drainage steps, mid-corner ridges that would have a road-biased damper packing down to the bumpstop. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built for that specific job: keeping a 1,650kg saloon planted on Welsh tarmac, Manx hairpins and the kind of resurfaced B-road that punishes a car with 414bhp going through a limited-slip diff.

This kit also bypasses the E90 M3’s EDC (Electronic Damping Control) module. Fit the supplied cancellation kit at the same time and the factory dash light stays out, so you can run the manual adjusters without an angry orange triangle for company.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2011 Bmw 3 SERIES E90 M3 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping)

On a stock E90 M3 the front end runs out of compression travel long before the chassis runs out of grip – it’s the single biggest complaint about the car as a stage tool. Move to the Tarmac Rally damper and the bigger oil volume soaks up the hit instead of bouncing the front tyres off the road, which is where lap-time on tarmac actually lives. Front-end traction under braking improves immediately, rotation on a trailed brake becomes predictable rather than nervous, and the rear axle stops skipping sideways over mid-corner crests. Ride height is adjustable on the perch (so corner-weighting is honest, not faked through preload), and the spring rates are matched to a car you’re going to throw at full-commitment sections rather than nurse home through traffic.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

This is XYZ Racing’s dedicated sealed-stage tarmac platform, not a re-badged circuit damper with softer springs. The valving is set up specifically to absorb the impact of broken pavement and big single-hit bumps – the kind of compression event that breaks a circuit shock – while still controlling body movement under load. Shock energy is dissipated quickly enough that the contact patch stays loaded through the next input, which is where tyre traction is either kept or thrown away. The damping curves come directly out of XYZ’s tarmac rally programme, so what arrives on your driveway is a setting the manufacturer has already proven on competition stages rather than a generic "rally" badge applied to a road kit. Construction is consistent with the wider XYZ catalogue – serviceable, rebuildable, and engineered to be re-valved as your event schedule changes.

Fitment for the Bmw 3 SERIES E90 M3 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2007-2011)

Chassis code BM63-1-C, covering the 2007-2011 E90 M3 saloon with factory EDC. The kit includes the electronic damping cancellation harness so the M3’s dash and DSC module accept the swap without throwing fault codes. Confirm your build year falls inside the 2007-2011 window before ordering.

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Pick your spring rates, ride height and EDC-cancellation spec in the configurator below.