XYZ Racing Circuit Master Coilovers — Ferrari 488 GTB (with hydraulic lift, excl.control system) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2016-2026

A 488 GTB on a dedicated circuit setup is a different animal to the road car Maranello sold you. The 3.9-litre twin-turbo F154 sits behind the bulkhead with real mass, and the factory magnetorheological dampers were tuned to flatter ride quality across a dozen driving modes – not to hold a consistent platform through ten qualifying laps at Donington. The XYZ Racing Circuit Master coilover for the Ferrari 488 GTB replaces that magneto-rheo system entirely, paired with the electronic damping cancellation kit so the ECU stops throwing CEL warnings at the suspension it can no longer see.

For owners running their 488 GTB on track days, in club-level GT racing, or in serious time-attack, this is XYZ’s top circuit-spec damper – the same construction philosophy used in their Racing Spec, Drift Spec and Tarmac Rally programmes. The hydraulic lift remains intact; only the adaptive damping is taken offline and replaced with mechanical adjustment under your control.

What this coilover does for your 2016-2026 Ferrari 488 GTB

On a mid-engined car with the polar-moment loading of a 488, what you feel from a damper change is immediate. The Circuit Master gives you a flat platform under heavy trail-braking into Druids or the Old Hairpin, holding the nose down so the front Pilot Sport Cup 2s actually load up rather than skating. Mid-corner, the rear stops squatting on power application out of slow corners – the 488’s torque delivery is brutal off-boost-onto-boost, and a controlled rear end means you can lean on the throttle earlier without the chassis taking a set you didn’t ask for.

With 9720 distinct adjustment combinations across the three knobs, you can separate low-speed compression (kerb strikes, weight transfer) from high-speed compression (surface texture) from rebound. That separation is the point – the OE adaptive system bundled everything together and let the ECU decide. Here, you decide. The hydraulic nose-lift system survives the conversion, so pit-lane entries and steep paddock ramps remain a non-issue.

About the Circuit Master coilover

The Circuit Master is XYZ’s sustained-circuit damper, built around the same competition platform they supply to their Racing Spec, Drift Spec and Tarmac Rally customers. The construction has been through extended testing with XYZ race teams on international circuits, with the brief being repeatable lap times across full session lengths rather than a single hot lap. The three-knob layout gives independent low-speed compression, high-speed compression, and rebound damping – 9720 ways in total to shape the corner.

One characteristic worth knowing: the small oil-passage design that gives the damper its high-frequency response can produce a faint hydraulic note when the coilover takes a sharp impact, such as a kerb strike or a road expansion joint. XYZ are explicit that this is normal behaviour from the small-orifice circuit valving, not a fault. The damper is built for circuit surfaces, where this trait is a non-issue and the response sharpness is the whole point.

Fitment for the Ferrari 488 GTB (2016-2026)

This kit is built specifically for the Ferrari 488 GTB chassis code FE03-C, model years 2016 to 2026, fitted with the factory hydraulic nose-lift system. It is supplied with the cancellation kit required to disable the electronic adaptive damping ECU input so the car runs cleanly on the mechanical Circuit Master setup. Confirm your specific car has the hydraulic lift but does NOT require retention of the adaptive damping control before ordering.

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