XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Dodge MAGNUM 2005-2008

The LX-platform Magnum is an unusual rally base – a 1,900kg longroof riding on a shortened LX chassis that shares its bones with the 300C and the Charger. That mass, that wheelbase, and the live-feeling rear of the early LX cars mean a sealed-stage tarmac setup has to do two jobs at once: keep a heavy nose composed through fast direction changes, and stop the rear from skating on mid-corner camber breaks. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built for exactly that brief.

This is a stage-spec damper, not a fast-road kit pressed into competition use. The valving and spring philosophy come straight from XYZ Racing’s tarmac rally programme, where the demands are repeat high-speed compression hits, kerb strikes, and surface changes that would unsettle a road-tuned coilover within a single stage.

What this coilover does for your 2005-2008 Dodge Magnum

On a Magnum running tarmac stages, the first thing you feel is how the car deals with a mid-corner bump that previously would have lifted the inside rear and washed the nose wide. The damper soaks the hit, keeps the contact patch loaded, and gives the front tyres a chance to actually rotate the car instead of skating across the surface. Body control through esses tightens up – the LX’s natural pendulum tendency under quick left-right transitions is reined in without making the ride brittle. Braking into stage hairpins is the other big gain: with the front end staying flatter under load, the available front grip goes up and the car stops responding to every bit of surface change as a steering input. The result is a Magnum that you can place exactly where you want it on a sealed stage, rather than one you negotiate with.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is purpose-tuned for sealed-stage rally work – broken tarmac, patched repairs, kerbs, jumps, and the surface inconsistencies that come with closed public-road events. The damper architecture is built to absorb large single-hit impacts without packing down, so the car stays planted across kerbing and ruts where a circuit damper would skip. Compression and rebound behaviour is calibrated to suppress body movement under repeat high-energy inputs while still letting the tyre breathe with the surface – the bit that turns shock energy into traction rather than into a wheel lifting clear. Every setting comes from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme: the spring rates, the damping curves, the stroke management. This is rally-derived hardware adapted to the specific reality of a heavy LX-platform car, not a circuit kit relabelled for stage use.

Fitment for the Dodge Magnum (2005-2008)

This kit is built specifically for the LX-platform Dodge Magnum, chassis code DO02, covering the 2005 to 2008 model years. It suits both rear-wheel-drive and AWD variants across the SE, SXT, RT and SRT-8 trims within that production run. Confirm your chassis and year against the configurator before ordering.

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