XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — BMW 7 SERIES E38 6 CYL (NOT AIR STRUT) 1995-2002

The E38 7 Series carries its weight low but wide, and the conventional strut cars in the range (as opposed to the self-levelling air-strut variants sold alongside them) were tuned for motorway comfort rather than holding a line through a fast direction change. That factory set-up leaves nearly two tonnes of saloon leaning hard into corners and diving under braking, which is exactly what the XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover is built to correct.

For a 1995-2002 BMW 7 Series E38 6 CYL owner who wants to drive the car properly on a fast road or the odd track day without ruining it as daily transport, Super Sport swaps the soft factory struts for a monotube damper with real adjustment range, so the platform sits and responds like the chassis underneath it always could.

What this coilover does for your 1995-2002 BMW 7 Series E38 6 CYL (NOT AIR STRUT)

Drop the ride height and firm up the low-speed damping and the E38’s nose stops diving under braking into a roundabout, while the rear stays planted when you get back on the throttle out of it. The 36-way damping adjustment means you’re not locked into one compromise – wind it towards the soft end for the motorway commute the six-cylinder cars were built for, then firm it up for a B-road drive or a track day without swapping parts. Because ride height is adjustable independently of the damper, you can correct the nose-heavy stance these cars develop on worn factory springs and get the corner weights back where they should be. The result is a big saloon that changes direction with far less roll and far more feedback through the wheel than the standard suspension ever gave it.

About the Super Sport coilover

XYZ Racing’s Super Sport coilover is built around a monotube damper with 36 discrete stages of adjustment, giving a wide spread between a compliant road setting and a firm track setting rather than the narrow band most off-the-shelf kits offer. Ride height is adjusted independently via the threaded body, so you can set the stance without upsetting the damper’s working range. The valving is tuned to soak up the sharp edge of poor UK road surfaces rather than transmitting it straight into the cabin, which is the specific discomfort Super Sport is designed to fix on cars that spend most of their life on the road. It’s a dual-use kit by design – built to be lived with every day and still hold up to a weekend on track or a fast road drive, rather than a single-purpose race damper that makes the car unpleasant to commute in.

Fitment for the BMW 7 Series E38 6 CYL (NOT AIR STRUT) (1995-2002)

This kit is specced for the BMW 7 Series E38, chassis code BM21-1, across the 1995 to 2002 production run fitted with six-cylinder engines and conventional strut suspension – not the self-levelling air-strut variants also sold in this range. Confirm your car runs coil-over-strut suspension at all four corners before ordering, since air-strut E38s need a different kit.

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If your E38 runs conventional strut suspension rather than the factory air set-up, this is the coilover built for it – pick your spec below and configure the kit for your car.