XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda CRV I 1995-2001

The first-generation Honda CRV is a strange thing to find on a stage entry list, but the HN27 chassis has a quietly loyal following on club tarmac rallies – high enough to clear broken kerbing, light enough on the nose that a properly damped front end transforms it, and cheap enough that ragging one through a sealed-surface stage doesn’t feel reckless. What it needs is a damper that can soak up a mid-corner ridge without the body taking three cycles to settle. That is exactly the brief XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover is built around.

Sealed-stage rally is the use case here, not fast road and not circuit. Expect a setup that prioritises shock absorption over big surface intrusions while still keeping the tyre planted when you load it up between hairpins.

What this coilover does for your 1995-2001 Honda CRV

On the HN27 CRV the limiting factor on a tarmac stage is rebound control – a tall-ish 4×4 wagon body wants to keep moving long after the wheel has finished its travel, and the standard suspension simply runs out of damping authority. XYZ’s Tarmac Rally damper is tuned to suppress that secondary body movement, so when you hit a patched-up section of country B-road the chassis stays composed instead of pogoing into the next corner. You feel it most in traction: the inside-rear stays loaded over compressions, the front tyres keep their contact patch, and steering inputs translate to direction change rather than waiting for the body to catch up. For a CRV being used in anger on club tarmac events, that is the difference between a setup that survives a stage and one that actually carries pace through it.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

Every adjustment on this kit comes from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme – the valving, the spring rates and the bump-absorption character were all signed off based on stage experience, not extrapolated from a fast-road template. The damper is built to absorb the impact of uneven pavement and the jolt of larger intrusions without transmitting them through the body of the car, which is what allows the tyre to keep working through a broken surface. It actively suppresses shock and body movement to increase tyre traction, and that traction is where the lap-equivalent time comes from on a sealed stage. The result is a chassis that gives you the handling envelope to commit on a surface that the original suspension was never asked to deal with.

Fitment for the Honda CRV (1995-2001)

This kit is specified for the HN27 first-generation CRV across the full 1995-2001 production run. Confirm your chassis code matches HN27 before ordering, and select your exact production year in the configurator to ensure the right top-mount and spring spec ships out.

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Pick your spec in the configurator below and build the kit to suit your stage calendar.