XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Ferrari CALIFORNIA (Both front and rear top mount are 4 holes) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2008-2014

The California is the awkward Ferrari to modify. Maranello’s first front-engined V8 GT runs Magnaride-style electronic damping from the factory, which means swapping in a passive coilover normally throws the dash into a permanent fault state. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover sidesteps that with an integrated cancellation kit for the electronic damping circuit, so the ECU stops looking for shocks it can no longer talk to.

This is the rally-spec variant of the XYZ ladder, not the road-going Super Sport. It is built around sealed-stage tarmac use – the kind of surface where a California’s 2.7-tonne kerbweight and long wheelbase want a damper that can soak up a bad camber-change at speed without unloading the inside rear.

What this coilover does for your 2008-2014 Ferrari California

The Tarmac Rally damper is tuned to absorb the impact of uneven pavement – the mid-corner ridges, the patched-asphalt joins, the sudden compression at the apex of a fast left-hander – without losing the body control that makes the California rotate. On a chassis this heavy, that matters more than peak grip on smooth tarmac. The damper suppresses body shock when you hit a bigger bump, which keeps the rear tyres loaded and pulling rather than skipping. Traction goes up, the car settles faster between direction changes, and the steering stays honest under trail-brake.

The cancellation kit is the part most California owners don’t realise they need. Removing the factory magnetic shocks without it triggers a permanent suspension warning and locks the ECU into a fallback map. With XYZ’s loom in line, the dash stays clean and the rest of the car behaves as the factory intended.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally damper sits in XYZ Racing’s competition line and is engineered specifically for sealed-stage tarmac rally use. Every setting on this kit comes from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme, so the valving and spring choices reflect what the team’s drivers have asked for over multiple seasons rather than a generic high-spring catalogue number.

Construction is sized for repeated full-compression hits without fade – the brief is to take a hard landing at the end of a fast straight, return to ride height, and do it again on the next stage without losing damping authority. The result is a coilover that resists the harsh transient shock through the body that you get from cheaper monotubes when a Ferrari this heavy meets a mid-corner ridge.

Out of the box the kit is geared for handling first, comfort second, but it is by no means brittle. The compression circuit is calibrated to bleed off the worst of a high-frequency impact while keeping the slower body movements properly tied down.

Fitment for the Ferrari California (2008-2014)

This kit fits the F149 California (XYZ chassis reference FE04-C) built 2008 through 2014. It is the four-bolt top mount version – both front and rear top mounts use the four-hole pattern – and it ships with the electronic damping cancellation loom required to retire the factory Magnaride circuit. Confirm your top-mount bolt pattern against the photographs before ordering; California production saw more than one mount layout.

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Pick your spring rates and ride-height preference in the configurator below to build your California kit.