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

The Ferrari California is an unusual candidate for a tarmac rally coilover – a front-engined, folding-hardtop GT with a 4.3-litre V8 sat behind the front axle line, never intended for stage work. But the platform’s near-50/50 weight balance and rigid aluminium spaceframe respond well to proper damping, and that is where this kit earns its place. The Tarmac Rally coilover is built for sealed-stage abuse: broken kerbing, mid-corner compressions, the kind of surface changes that unsettle a softly-sprung GT car within a single corner.

This is the four-hole top-mount fitment for 2008-2014 California cars – confirm yours before ordering, as Ferrari ran two different top-mount patterns on this chassis. The Tarmac Rally spec sits at the firmer, more impact-tolerant end of the XYZ Racing range, where Top Sport prioritises smooth-circuit lap time and Super Sport leans toward fast-road comfort.

What this coilover does for your 2008-2014 Ferrari California

Bump compliance is the headline. The Tarmac Rally damping curve is set up to absorb sharp inputs – kerbs, ridge joints, repaired tarmac – without losing body control on the exit. That matters on a 1,735kg GT where the standard adaptive dampers were tuned for refinement first and handling second. You get a much firmer, more communicative front end, with the rear axle staying planted under throttle rather than skipping wide over mid-corner bumps.

Ride height comes down at the front to settle the nose and reduce the visual rake the California is known for. Tyre contact patch behaviour through fast direction changes becomes far more predictable, and braking confidence into compressed sections improves once the dampers stop bottoming on their factory bump stops.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally damper is engineered to absorb impacts that would unsettle a circuit-focused coilover – the uneven surfaces, big bumps and surface transitions that define sealed-stage rallying. XYZ has tuned the valving to suppress shock loads into the body while keeping the tyre loaded through the compression stroke, which is what builds traction on a bumpy surface where a stiffer spring would simply skip the contact patch off the road.

Every damping and spring setting in this kit is drawn from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally competition work, not extrapolated from a road-going catalogue. The brief is vehicle stability under inputs that would normally compromise it – and that translates into a coilover that copes with abused British B-roads as comfortably as it does with stage work.

Fitment for the Ferrari California (2008-2014)

This kit is specific to the FE04 California chassis built between 2008 and 2014, in the variant where both front and rear top mounts use the four-hole pattern. Ferrari produced California cars with two different top-mount drillings during this run, so check yours before purchase – the wrong pattern will not bolt up.

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