XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Ferrari 488 GTB (without hydraulic lift system) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2016-2026

The 488 GTB arrived with magnetorheological dampers tuned by Maranello to do two jobs at once: ride a Surrey B-road on a Sunday, then hold the front end together at Fiorano on a Tuesday. It is an extraordinary piece of engineering, and it is also the single most expensive component to replace when the fluid and valves give up at ten years old. This is the kit owners fit when they have decided to step off the magneride treadmill entirely.

The XYZ Racing Super Sport is a 36-way adjustable, ride-height-adjustable coilover engineered for the FE03-1-C 488 GTB ordered without the hydraulic lift system, and it ships with the cancellation harness needed to retire the factory electronic damping signal cleanly. It replaces a finite-life OEM system with a serviceable, rebuildable, owner-tuneable one.

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

Switching out the magneride hardware for a properly damped mechanical coilover changes the 488 in ways the spec sheet undersells. The mid-engined balance the car was built around finally sits on a platform that does not soften and re-firm itself mid-corner, so turn-in stays linear from apex to apex. The 36-way damping range lets you run the car compliant enough for British surface changes on the road, then wind compression up for a weekend trackday without touching the spring platforms. Ride height adjustment lets you set the rake the factory locked away behind a dealer tool, and the cancellation kit means no dash light, no limp-home, no error code on the cluster. For 488 owners who have been quoted five figures for a single magneride strut, this is the route back to a serviceable car.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road-plus-occasional-track damper, built around a single 36-way adjuster that controls bump and rebound together. The brief was to kill the harshness that cheaper coilovers introduce on broken tarmac while still giving the driver a usable damping window for circuit work, and the valving is set up around that compromise rather than chasing pure lap-time. Ride height is adjustable at the spring platform, and on this Ferrari-specific application the kit is supplied with the electronic damping cancellation harness so the OEM ECU stops looking for the magneride solenoids. The shock body construction is built to be rebuilt rather than discarded – the opposite philosophy to the sealed magneride units they replace. The vendor describes it as a system that can be configured for weekend racing and daily driving from the same set of dampers, and that is the honest brief: one kit, two characters, switched at the top of the strut.

Fitment for the Ferrari 488 GTB (2016-2026)

This kit is specific to the FE03-1-C 488 GTB built without the optional hydraulic front-axle lift system, covering production from 2016 to 2026. The included cancellation harness addresses the electronic damping system fitted as standard to all 488 GTB variants. If your car was specified with the front-lift option, you need the alternative part number – that variant uses a different front strut architecture.

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The Super Sport is the spec the majority of 488 owners step into once magneride economics force the conversation – configure yours below.