XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda CRZ ZF1 2010-2016

The ZF1 CR-Z is an odd duck to build for tarmac stage work – a hybrid coupe with a 1.5 IMA powertrain, a stiff little chassis, and a kerb weight that rewards aggressive damping more than outright spring rate. The Tarmac Rally coilover is built for sealed-stage pace where the road is broken but never loose, and that brief suits the ZF1’s short wheelbase well. Where a sport coilover would skip across mid-corner ripples, this kit is set up to keep the inside front loaded.

Honda’s hybrid coupe was never a factory rally car, but the privateer scene has kept finding reasons to put it on stages: low front mass, a usefully short overhang, and a CVT or 6-speed manual that both tolerate stage abuse. This kit gives you the damping headroom to use that chassis hard on broken tarmac without bottoming the strut or losing front grip over crested apexes.

What this coilover does for your 2010-2016 Honda CRZ ZF1

On a stage road, the first thing you feel is compliance under shock loading – kerbs, crested camber changes, mid-corner step-offs. The Tarmac Rally damper soaks those impacts instead of pinging the tyre off the surface, so the front contact patch stays planted when you’re trail-braking into a tightening third-gear corner. The ZF1’s short wheelbase makes it twitchy on turn-in; matched damping front to rear settles that nervousness without softening the response. Spring and damper rates carried over from XYZ Racing’s tarmac rally programme mean the CR-Z sits at a usable stage ride height rather than the slammed fast-road posture most ZF1 owners default to. You get the suspension travel back, and with it the ability to actually use the throttle on corner exit.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

This is a damper built specifically for sealed-stage tarmac competition, not a fast-road coilover wearing rally branding. The valving is tuned to absorb the impact of broken pavement – the kind of compressed shock load you take crossing a patched join at speed – while suppressing body movement quickly enough to load the tyre for the next input. The brief is traction first: the more the body is calmed over a series of bumps, the longer the tyre stays in contact with the road, and the more grip you have to put down on corner exit. XYZ Racing developed the spec from their own tarmac rally racing programme, and the settings come straight from that environment rather than being adapted from a circuit kit. For a ZF1 used on stage rallies, hillclimbs, or fast B-road work, that competition-rooted setup is the point of the kit.

Fitment for the Honda CRZ ZF1 (2010-2016)

Built specifically for the Honda CR-Z ZF1 chassis covering the 2010 to 2016 production run. The kit fits the full generation, including hybrid IMA and later facelift cars, with no trim-specific variation.

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