XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — BMW Z3 M 1997-2001

The Z3 M runs a 2.46-metre wheelbase and a semi-trailing arm rear axle that owes more to older BMW thinking than to the multi-link E36 saloon it shares an engine bay ethos with, and the result is a car that moves around under you far more readily than its straight-line pace suggests. The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover for the Bmw Z3 M is built to take the edge off that liveliness without sanitising the car: a height-adjustable, damping-adjustable kit aimed squarely at fast-road use with the headroom to firm things up for a track day.

Street Advanced sits at the usable end of the XYZ range. With 720 separate damping settings to work through, you can set the car soft enough to survive a broken British B-road, then wind it tighter when the surface and the occasion justify it.

What this coilover does for your 1997-2001 Bmw Z3 M

On a chassis this short, it is body movement that unsettles the rear, and that is precisely where a proper coilover earns its keep. Lowering the Z3 M drops the centre of gravity and sharpens roll response, so the back axle stops loading and unloading so abruptly through a corner. The 720-way damping range lets you tune compression and rebound around the M straight-six’s weight over the nose, settling dive under braking and squat as you get back on the throttle. Independent ride-height adjustment means you can set a stance that still clears speed bumps yet keeps the car flat when it matters. The net effect is a Z3 M that warns you earlier and asks less of your reflexes as the limit arrives.

About the Street Advanced coilover

XYZ positions Street Advanced as its most popular and most genuinely usable kit, refined over years by the company’s own engineering team and shaped by experience gained in races worldwide. The defining figure is 720 ways of damping adjustment, a span wide enough for a single kit to bridge a comfortable road set-up and a firmer track configuration. It is developed specifically for cars that spend most of their life on the road but get taken to the occasional circuit day, which is the exact brief most Z3 M owners are working to. Height adjustment is handled separately from damping, so you can set stance and corner balance without giving up ride quality. For a driver chasing more speed and tighter control, but stopping short of a stripped-out competition build, this is the kit XYZ points to first.

Fitment for the Bmw Z3 M (1997-2001)

This kit is specced for the Bmw Z3 M, chassis code BM72, covering the 1997 to 2001 model years. It fits both the Roadster and the Coupe bodystyles built on that platform. Check your exact build year in the configurator before ordering.

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Set your height, choose your damping and build your Street Advanced kit for the Z3 M using the configurator below.