XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda CRV VI 2023-2026

The Honda CRV VI is a 1,600kg-plus crossover with long-travel comfort tuning and a high centre of gravity – not the natural starting point for a rally build, but increasingly the platform privateers are picking for sealed-stage tarmac events where reliability and parts availability matter more than kerb weight. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is built for that exact brief: sealed-surface stages where the car has to soak up patched asphalt, cambered hairpins and the occasional cut kerb without losing tyre contact.

For a CRV VI campaigned on tarmac, the priority is impact absorption without the body float that the standard struts give you mid-corner. This kit is tuned to keep the contact patch loaded through compressions and to recover quickly from the unweighting moment you get cresting a brow at speed.

What this coilover does for your 2023-2026 Honda CRV VI

Drop the standard struts out and the CRV VI’s behaviour changes in three places you feel immediately. Turn-in sharpens because the front roll rate is now controlled rather than absorbed, so the nose stops washing wide on entry. Mid-corner, the damper keeps the outside tyre planted over the broken surface you find on UK back-roads and Welsh stage rallies, which is where standard SUV dampers simply give up and skip. On exit, traction recovers faster from kerb strikes and surface changes, so you can get back to throttle earlier without the rear stepping.

Ride height drops to a sensible rally stance – low enough to lower the roll centre, high enough to keep the sump clear of stage debris.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally series is XYZ Racing’s sealed-surface stage damper, developed specifically to absorb the kind of impacts you see on patched-asphalt rally roads rather than smooth circuit tarmac. The valving is set up to take a big single hit – a kerb, a compression, a transition – and damp it out without packing down, while still controlling the body across a long fast section.

Construction is monotube to handle repeated high-energy impacts without fade, and the damper is built to suppress shock-body movement so the spring rate does the work it’s supposed to do. The result is a coilover that keeps the tyre loaded when the surface is doing its best to unload it – traction across uneven pavement is the whole point. Settings carry across from XYZ Racing’s own Tarmac Rally programme, so this isn’t a circuit damper relabelled for stages.

Fitment for the Honda CRV VI (2023-2026)

This kit is fitment-specific to the sixth-generation Honda CRV (VI chassis), covering model years 2023 through 2026. Spring rates, damper length and top mount geometry are matched to the CRV VI’s strut and multilink layout – it will not interchange with the outgoing fifth-generation CRV.

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Spec the spring rates and ride height for your CRV VI build below – configure yours in the panel beneath this copy.