XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Dodge NEON 1999-2005

The Dodge NEON’s strut-and-trailing-beam chassis was always more honest than the budget price tag suggested, and the second-generation DO03 is one of the few American small cars from the early 2000s that genuinely rewards a stiffer spring and a properly valved damper. The factory ride is soft, the body roll is generous, and the front struts give up long before the tyres do. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the Dodge NEON is the fast-road answer to all three of those problems.

It’s a 36-way damping-adjustable kit built around height-adjustable lower mounts, aimed squarely at owners running a stock or lightly tuned SOHC, a hotter SXT, or the SRT-4 turbo variant who want the car to corner flat without turning every motorway run into a chiropractor appointment.

What this coilover does for your 1999-2005 Dodge NEON

Drop the NEON onto the Super Sport and the front-end float that defines the standard car disappears immediately. The 36-way damping range is the headline feature here – one end of the click range gives you a compliant fast-road setup that absorbs scarred B-road tarmac, and the other end firms the chassis up enough to keep an SRT-4 honest on a track day without skipping over kerbs. Height adjustment is independent of spring preload, so you can sit the NEON at a sensible road-legal drop without coil-binding the springs or running out of damper travel. Turn-in sharpens noticeably, the rear stops following the front a beat late, and trail-braking into a slow corner stops loading the outside front to the point of washing wide. For SRT-4 owners running more power than the standard struts were ever specified for, this is the upgrade that finally lets the front tyres put the torque down cleanly.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport sits in XYZ Racing’s range as the dual-purpose damper – a unit engineered to take rough road surfaces in its stride while still standing up to a weekend on circuit. The 36-way adjustment is single-knob compression-and-rebound on each damper, which keeps the tuning honest for an owner setting the car up themselves rather than running a data engineer. Ride height is set at the lower mount rather than by winding the spring perch, which preserves spring stroke at any drop. The damper internals are built around eliminating the harshness that defines budget lowering setups – the brief from XYZ is explicitly that the Super Sport should handle bumps and rough surfaces without the spine-jarring secondary ride that cheaper kits suffer from. The result is a coilover that can be set up for a daily commute on Monday and a track day on Saturday from the same 36 clicks.

Fitment for the Dodge NEON (1999-2005)

This kit fits the second-generation Dodge NEON DO03 chassis from 1999 through to the 2005 model-year run-out, covering the SOHC, SXT and SRT-4 turbo variants on the standard strut-and-rear-beam layout. Front struts and rear shock-and-spring assemblies are supplied as a four-corner kit specific to the DO03 platform.

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Pick your spring rates and configure your Super Sport spec below to match how you actually drive your NEON.