XYZ Racing Racing Spec Coilovers — Ferrari CALIFORNIA (Both front and rear top mount are 4 holes) 2008-2014

The California’s front-mid-mounted 4.3-litre V8 sits behind the front axle but ahead of the bulkhead, and the resulting weight distribution rewards a damper that can hold the nose flat through long, loaded corners without unsticking the rear under power. The Racing Spec coilover for the 2008-2014 California (FE04 chassis, four-hole top mounts front and rear) is the kit XYZ Racing builds when a customer has stopped caring about Fiorano-spec compliance and started caring about lap times.

This is not a fast-road damper that happens to be stiff. It is the same family of shock absorber XYZ takes to WTCC, ported to a front-engined GT chassis that needs to live on a circuit. If you have a California that is already on a roll-cage build, slick tyres, or an aggressive aero programme, this is the platform XYZ will work from.

What this coilover does for your 2008-2014 Ferrari California

On a circuit the California’s standard magnetorheological dampers run out of control authority once spring rate, tyre grip, and aero load all step up together. The Racing Spec replaces that envelope entirely. You get a damper valved for sustained heat cycles, the body control to keep camber working through the apex, and the platform stiffness to make a meaningful aero package actually load the tyres rather than the bushes.

Trail-braking into a slow corner, the front end stays composed instead of pitching onto its outside-front tyre. Through long fast corners the rear stops walking under throttle as load transfers off the inside wheel. And because the kit is set up for race conditions rather than road comfort, the calibration window is wide – you have somewhere to go when the circuit, the tyre, or the driver gets faster.

About the Racing Spec coilover

Racing Spec is the top of XYZ’s circuit hierarchy. The valving has been developed directly from competition use, with settings drawn from WTCC programmes and refined against data from running cars. It is intended for time-attack, club racing, and serious track work – not a fast-road kit with a stickered-up reservoir.

The most important detail with this kit is what sits behind the catalogue listing. XYZ will produce bespoke shock absorbers for cars running heavy modifications – factory-style racing builds, A-class race cars, or any California with a known aero map and tyre choice. To do that they need information from you: the rest of the suspension geometry, the aero, the tyre, and the circuits the car will run. Send that detail through the build form and the damper that arrives is valved for your car, not a generic Ferrari California spec sheet.

Fitment for the Ferrari CALIFORNIA (2008-2014)

This kit fits the FE04 chassis California built from 2008 through 2014, in the version where both the front and rear upper top mounts use a four-hole pattern. Confirm your top-mount pattern before ordering – Ferrari ran more than one mounting interface across the California’s life, and the four-hole spec is the one this part number is engineered around.

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If your California has moved past road use and into a serious track programme, build yours below – and use the notes field to tell XYZ exactly what the car runs, so the valving arrives matched to it.