XYZ Racing Gravel Rally Coilovers — BMW 3 SERIES E93 M3 (Modified Rear Integrated) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2007-2011

The E93 M3’s folding hardtop stacks weight high over the rear axle, and on loose surfaces that mass wants to keep moving long after the wheel has already changed direction. XYZ Racing’s Gravel Rally coilover is built to control exactly that kind of chassis motion, with an inverted-tube damper design aimed squarely at rally and rallycross work rather than tarmac track days.

For gravel-stage driving in a 2007-2011 BMW 3 Series E93 M3 fitted with this cancellation kit for electronic damping, that means swapping the factory’s electronically controlled dampers for a fixed-valve rally set-up the driver decides, not a control module. Long stroke and long spring travel are the headline numbers here, giving the axle room to work over sandstone, snow or silt without bottoming out mid-stage.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2011 Bmw 3 Series E93 M3 (Modified Rr Integrated) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping)

Cancelling the factory electronic damping control hands full authority for damping force back to the physical valving in each strut, which matters the moment you’re off tarmac and the ECU can no longer guess what the surface is doing underneath you. The long stroke and long spring specified for this kit give the rear axle – already carrying the extra mass of the E93’s folding roof mechanism – enough travel to soak up compressions on a rutted stage without slamming into the bump stops. Inverted-tube construction keeps the working surfaces protected from the grit and stone chip a gravel road throws up, which pays off on the fast, bouncy sections where the front axle is already carrying the weight of the S65 V8. The rear-integrated mounting on this kit is matched to the E93’s convertible subframe geometry, so the extra bracing that platform needs doesn’t fight the new dampers.

About the Gravel Rally coilover

XYZ Racing built the Gravel Rally coilover specifically around rally and rallycross events, where the surface underneath the car changes character corner to corner and the damper has to keep up. The inverted-tube layout is there to cope with that variability – sandstone, snow and silt each load the strut differently, and inverting the tube shields the working parts from the debris a proper gravel stage throws at them. Stroke and spring length are both extended well beyond a road-going coilover, which is what lets the suspension absorb chassis vibration on a fast, rutted road without transmitting every hit straight into the shell. That extra travel is also what keeps the tyre loaded under the extreme cornering forces a gravel stage generates, where available grip shifts from one bend to the next. Every spring rate offered in this range has been run by a rally racing team rather than calculated on a bench, so the numbers reflect what holds up across a full stage.

Fitment for the Bmw 3 Series E93 M3 (Modified Rr Integrated) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2007-2011)

This kit is specced for the E93-generation BMW M3 built between 2007 and 2011, in the Modified Rr Integrated configuration with the cancellation kit for electronic damping fitted, meaning the rear mounting and the EDC bypass are already accounted for in the part rather than added later. Confirm your car carries the factory electronic damping control before ordering, since this cancellation kit is designed specifically to replace that system.

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Spring rates and valving on this Gravel Rally kit are set per stage type, so pick your configuration below and build the set-up for your event calendar.