XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Holden COMMODORE VE 2006-2013

The VE Commodore is a big, rear-drive saloon riding on a unique-to-Australia Zeta platform, and the factory FE2 setup was tuned for a continent of long, fast, undulating roads – not for British B-roads or a sharp UK trackday corner. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover is built to take that 1.7-tonne body, calm the float, and give a VE owner genuine height and damping control without losing the long-travel composure the chassis was originally designed around.

For a fast-road SS, SS-V, Calais or Omega VE running on UK tarmac, the Super Sport sits in the right place on the XYZ range – 36-way damping, height adjustment independent of spring preload, and a spring rate window that suits a heavy V6 or 6.0/6.2 LS-powered front end. It is the kit you fit when you want the car to actually turn in, but you still drive it to work.

What this coilover does for your 2006-2013 Holden Commodore VE

The VE’s front end carries serious mass over the strut tops, and the standard dampers give up under repeated load – the nose dives under braking, then the rear squats out of the corner. Swapping to the Super Sport tightens both ends of that transition: pitch is controlled, the body stays flatter through a long sweeping bend, and the rear axle stops wallowing on motorway expansion joints. The 36-way damping click lets you run the car soft enough for broken UK back roads on a Sunday, then firm it up two or three turns for a Castle Combe or Donington trackday without touching the ride height. Lowering the stance also drops the roll centre, which is the single biggest handling gain a VE owner will feel – the steering wakes up, and turn-in stops feeling like you are pushing a boat into the corner.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport is XYZ Racing’s fast-road-and-weekend-track damper, and the construction reflects that brief. Independent height adjustment is separated from spring preload, so you can drop the VE without binding the spring or losing useful shock stroke – a real issue on a long-travel chassis like this one. The 36-way damping adjuster sits at the top of each unit and controls both bump and rebound on a single click, which is the right level of tuning for an owner who wants to find a setting and live with it, rather than corner-weighting before every session. XYZ’s brief on the Super Sport is comfort on a rough road and composure on a circuit – they explicitly position it for both daily driving and weekend racing, and the valving choices follow that. Build quality is the same monotube architecture used across the XYZ coilover range, with serviceable internals rather than a sealed, replace-only damper.

Fitment for the Holden Commodore VE (2006-2013)

This kit is built specifically for the VE-series Commodore on the Zeta platform, covering 2006 through to the VE II run-out in 2013. It fits across the SS, SS-V, Calais, Berlina and Omega VE saloon and Sportwagon bodies sharing the front strut / rear multi-link layout. Confirm your exact variant against the configurator below before ordering.

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Pick your spring rate and ride height options in the configurator below to build the Super Sport spec for your VE.