XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Ferrari CALIFORNIA (Both front and rear top mount are 2 holes) 2008-2014

The Ferrari California is the unusual front-engined V8 that Maranello pitched at owners who actually wanted to drive their Ferrari every weekend, not trailer it. That brief – folding hard-top, 2+2 packaging, GT weight distribution shifted noticeably forward of a 458 – means the factory damping was always tuned for refinement first and body control second. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover is the upgrade that rebalances that compromise without turning the car into something you no longer want to drive to dinner.

For owners running a California on UK roads and the occasional circuit day at Goodwood or Bedford, this is the fast-road-and-weekend-track spec from XYZ Racing’s range. It gives you a ride-height drop to fix the factory wheel-arch gap and a damping range wide enough to firm the car up for a session and soften it back down for the drive home.

What this coilover does for your 2008-2014 Ferrari California

Lower the California onto a properly damped coilover and the first thing you notice is how much earlier the front axle commits to a turn. The standard car leans on its outside front tyre and washes wide; with 36-way damping you can stiffen the front to keep the nose flatter under brake-trail, then slacken the rear a click or two to let the tail follow the steering rather than fight it. Ride height adjustment closes the arch gap so the car finally looks like it sits the way a front-engined Ferrari should. Bump and rebound control sharpens turn-in response without battering you over expansion joints, and the wider damping window means a single set covers the school run and a track session on the same weekend.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road damper aimed squarely at owners who use their car on broken UK B-roads as often as they use it on smooth circuits. It carries 36-way damping adjustment, height adjustment independent of preload, and a build that XYZ tunes to absorb sharp inputs from bumps and patched tarmac rather than skipping over them. Vendor data positions it as a high-performance unit that works for both weekend competition and daily use – the engineering bias is toward eliminating the harshness most off-the-shelf coilovers introduce when fitted to a heavy GT car. For a chassis as long-wheelbased and front-loaded as the California, that bias matters more than peak stiffness numbers.

Fitment for the Ferrari CALIFORNIA (2008-2014)

This kit is built for the FE04-1 chassis California with the two-hole top mount pattern at both front and rear. Year coverage runs the full 2008 to 2014 production span of the original folding-hard-top California, before the turbocharged California T arrived. Confirm your top mount hole pattern before ordering, as Ferrari ran more than one mount specification across this platform.

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Configure your Super Sport spec below and build the setup that matches how you actually use your California.