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

The 488 GTB’s 3.9-litre twin-turbo V8 sits behind the cabin with the kind of mid-engined polar-moment that rewards a chassis tuned to talk back. Ferrari’s factory magnetorheological dampers do an extraordinary job on a B-road, but they were never meant to be circuit-stressed at 20-minute stints on cooked tyres – the electronic system tightens up, masks feedback, then heat-fades just when you want to lean on it.

This Top Sport coilover, with its dedicated cancellation kit for the electronic damping, gives a 488 owner a proper mechanical chassis – one that holds its damping force on lap eight of a 20-minute session, lets you set a real corner-weighted ride height, and still tucks the nose into the garage on the original hydraulic lift system.

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

On the road, you get a 488 that finally feels planted over the lumpier sections of British B-roads instead of skipping wide on mid-corner crests. Spring rates roughly 2 kg/mm stiffer than the factory street setting, combined with 30-50% more damping force, kill the float that the OE setup leaves in at speed without going harsh over expansion joints. The result is sharper turn-in and a flatter mid-corner stance from a car that already corners hard.

The bigger gain shows up on track. The cancellation kit removes the factory electronic damping logic cleanly, so the ECU stops throwing fault codes and the dampers behave as proper passive mechanical units. Corner balancing is back on the table. Crucially, the hydraulic lift system is preserved – kerbs and steep ramps are still survivable.

About the Top Sport coilover

Top Sport sits in XYZ Racing’s range as the occasional-track-plus-street-daily spec, and the calibration reflects that. Damping is increased by 30-50% over the brand’s street setting, with spring rates lifted by roughly 2 kg/mm, which gives the kit the headroom to absorb a sharp expansion joint or a high-speed crest without bottoming, while still tying the body down through fast direction changes. The point of the additional rate is not stiffness for its own sake – it is to keep the tyre contact patch loaded and increase traction when the surface is uneven, particularly under braking and on corner exit.

The settings come directly from XYZ Racing’s own Top Sport development programme, so this is a known calibration rather than a generic taper. The Ferrari-specific variant adds the cancellation kit needed to decouple the 488’s electronic damping loop without losing the hydraulic nose-lift function – a non-trivial bit of engineering on this chassis.

Fitment for the Ferrari 488 GTB (2016-2026)

This kit fits the FE03-C chassis 488 GTB built from 2016 to 2026, specifically the variant equipped with the factory hydraulic front lift system. It includes the dedicated cancellation kit required to disable the electronic damping control, so the dampers function as standalone passive units. The hydraulic lift retains its full original travel.

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Pick your ride-height and damping spec for this 488 GTB kit in the configurator below.