XYZ Racing Circuit Master Coilovers — Honda CRV I 1995-2001

The first-generation Honda CRV was never meant for circuit work – a tall, soft-sprung compact SUV on a Civic-derived platform, tuned for school runs and gravel tracks. That makes the Circuit Master coilover an unusual fit, and an interesting one: owners running an HN27 on track, in time-attack, or in tarmac-rally-style events are fighting a centre of gravity that wants to roll, a chassis that pitches hard under braking, and dampers that were never specified for sustained heat.

The XYZ Racing Circuit Master rewrites that brief. Built for sustained circuit lap-time work and tested by XYZ racing teams across international tracks, this is the kit you fit to an HN27 CRV that is being campaigned rather than commuted.

What this coilover does for your 1995-2001 Honda CRV

Drop a Circuit Master into a first-gen CRV and the chassis stops behaving like an SUV under load. The standing height comes down, the roll moment shortens, and the front end finally takes a stable set on turn-in instead of leaning across to the outside tyre and washing wide. With 9720 individual adjustment combinations across three knobs, you can run a stiffer high-speed compression setting for fast direction changes and back the low-speed off for trail-braking feel – useful on a tall platform where weight transfer is exaggerated. Brake stability improves, mid-corner attitude becomes predictable, and the HN27 starts using its rear axle properly rather than dragging it through the corner.

About the Circuit Master coilover

The Circuit Master sits at the competitive end of the XYZ Racing range, alongside Racing Spec, Drift Spec and Tarmac Rally builds. It is engineered around sustained circuit use – long stints, repeated heat cycles, and the specific damping behaviour a driver needs when they are reading the road at lap-time pace rather than road pace. Three separate adjustment knobs control the damping behaviour, opening up 9720 combinations of compression and rebound across high and low speed. There is a deliberate construction detail to be aware of: the small oil-hole geometry that gives the kit its on-circuit precision can produce a faint noise over large bumps as oil moves through the passage. That is a normal characteristic of a coilover designed for smooth tarmac surfaces, not a fault.

Fitment for the Honda CRV (1995-2001)

This Circuit Master kit is built for the first-generation Honda CRV, chassis code HN27, covering the full 1995 to 2001 production run. Confirm your chassis plate before ordering and check the spec options for any drivetrain-specific variants in the configurator below.

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Configure your Circuit Master spec for the HN27 CRV in the options below.