XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — BMW I8 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2014-2020

The BMW i8’s carbon-fibre tub and central battery spine hand it a low centre of gravity most petrol sports cars never see, yet its factory adaptive dampers were tuned for grand-touring compliance, not stage pace. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover for the BMW i8 2014-2020 replaces that electronically controlled setup outright, and the supplied cancellation kit stops the car’s damping module logging faults once the standard struts are gone.

This is the sealed-stage tarmac rally specification: damping settings drawn from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme, built to soak up broken pavement and kerb strikes while keeping all four contact patches loaded. For an i8 driven hard on rough B-roads or closed special stages, it trades the standard car’s softened float for control you can lean on.

What this coilover does for your 2014-2020 Bmw I8 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping)

Over a patched surface the first thing you notice is how much less the i8 skips. The Tarmac Rally valving absorbs the jolt of a big compression – a drainage channel, a kerb, a mid-corner ridge – then settles without the secondary wallow the standard dampers allow. That matters on a car splitting drive between an electric front axle and a petrol-fed rear: pressing both axles’ tyres into the road is what lets the i8 deploy its torque cleanly out of a slow corner. Ride height drops to close the gap between the carbon body and the tarmac, and movement under braking and turn-in is reined in so the front end bites where you aim it.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally coilover sits at the rough-road end of XYZ Racing’s range, engineered for sealed-stage tarmac rally rather than smooth circuit work. Where a track-biased damper crashes through a surface change, this one is valved to absorb the impact and suppress the shock travelling into the body. That keeps the tyre in contact through the disturbance instead of pattering over it, and contact is traction. The behaviour the engineers chase is stability – a car that stays composed and predictable when the surface stops cooperating. Every setting in the kit comes from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally experience, so the baseline is a competition starting point rather than a generic lowering spring.

Fitment for the Bmw I8 4WD (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) (2014-2020)

This kit is cut for the BMW i8 4WD, chassis code BM102-C, across the 2014 to 2020 production run. The 4WD reference is the i8’s hybrid layout – electric front axle, petrol-driven rear – and the cancellation kit for electronic damping is included so the factory adaptive struts can be removed without tripping the car’s damping warning system. Confirm your build falls inside that year span before configuring.

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