XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Chevrolet CORVETTE C5/C6 (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 1997-2013

The Corvette C5 and C6 were built around a transverse composite leaf spring and, on Magnetic Selective Ride Control cars, a closed-loop electronic damper system that owners increasingly find dated, expensive to replace, and impossible to tune. The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover for the Chevrolet Corvette C5/C6 1997-2013 is the cancellation answer: it deletes the factory MSRC architecture entirely and replaces it with a fully mechanical, height- and damping-adjustable platform built around the LS-powered front-engine/rear-transaxle layout.

This is the Street Advanced spec, which means the kit is calibrated for fast road and the occasional track day rather than slick-tyre circuit duty. The cancellation hardware in this kit handles the electronic damping codes at the source so the dash stays clean once the OE struts come off.

What this coilover does for your 1997-2013 Chevrolet Corvette C5/C6

Pulling the transverse leaf and MSRC dampers and swapping in a coilover at all four corners is the single biggest handling change you can make to a C5 or C6 short of swapping the rear cradle. Body control sharpens immediately – the nose stops floating mid-corner under throttle and the rear axle stops pogo-ing on broken surfaces. Ride height is independently adjustable front and rear, so you can finally correct the C6’s slightly nose-up factory rake without resorting to lowering bolts or trimming the leaf. The 720-way damping adjustment lets you run a soft, compliant setup for B-road driving and stiffen up two clicks at a time for a circuit session without unbolting anything. Brake dive under hard ABS stops is noticeably reduced, which matters on a 1,500 kg car carrying Z06 or Grand Sport-spec rotors.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s most popular full-coilover platform, developed over multiple seasons by XYZ’s own engineering team and validated through international race programmes before it reached the road catalogue. The brief is dual-purpose: properly civilised on a daily commute, properly capable when the road opens up or you book a track day. 720 individual damping positions on a single combined bump-and-rebound knob give an unusually fine sweep between soft and firm, so the same kit suits a comfort-biased setup and a hard-driven weekend setup without a respec. Construction is mono-tube, height adjusts on a separate lower bracket so preload and ride height are decoupled, and the spring rates are picked for the donor chassis rather than pulled from a one-size box. For the C5/C6 application, that means rates that respect the leaf-spring car’s relatively soft factory roll-stiffness baseline rather than overwhelming it.

Fitment for the Chevrolet CORVETTE C5/C6 (1997-2013)

This kit covers the C5 (1997-2004) and C6 (2005-2013) generations under chassis code CH08-C, and crucially it is the cancellation-kit variant – it is the correct part for cars originally fitted with Magnetic Selective Ride Control. If your car has the F55 option or equivalent electronic damping, this is the version you want; standard passive C5/C6 cars take the non-cancellation kit instead.

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Pick your spring rates and ride-height preference below and configure the kit to your car.