XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Honda FIT GD 2001-2007

Launching a front-wheel-drive Honda FIT GD hard off the line is a fight against the car’s own weight transfer: the moment you drop the clutch, mass wants to shift rearward, away from the very front tyres doing the driving. The XYZ Racing Drag Racing coilover for the Honda FIT GD attacks exactly that problem. It is set up to keep load planted on the driven front axle through the launch, so the contact patch does the work instead of the tyre lighting up.

This is a single-discipline kit for the 2001-2007 GD chassis – the light, centre-tank "Global Small" Jazz/Fit that already carries a useful weight bias for a front-driver. Built for 0-400 metre runs, it trades broad fast-road compliance for repeatable starts and high-speed composure down the strip.

What this coilover kit does for your 2001-2007 Honda FIT GD

The benefit you feel is in the first second of the run. The damping and ride-height settings force the driven front tyres to compress harder under launch, which cuts the bog-and-spin moment where the revs climb but the car does not. Once you are moving, the same setup steadies the GD’s light tail at the top of third and beyond, so the car tracks straight rather than getting nervous as speed builds. Because ride height is adjustable, you can set the nose attitude to suit your tyre and the surface you run on.

About the Drag Racing coilover

XYZ Racing builds this series specifically for 0-400 metre drag work, and the engineering brief is narrow on purpose. The valving and spring choice manage front-to-rear weight movement at the instant of launch, biasing load toward whichever axle drives the car – the front, in the FIT GD’s case – and the same logic carries across FWD, RWD and 4WD applications. By making the driven tyre compress and grip rather than shear, the kit reduces the idle wheelspin off the line and holds the car stable at terminal speed. It is height-adjustable, so you can set static rake and ride height to your launch technique, with the focus kept on straight-line traction rather than circuit versatility.

Fitment for the Honda FIT GD (2001-2007)

This kit is built for the GD-chassis Honda FIT (2001-2007), the first-generation centre-tank car sold here as the Jazz. Confirm your chassis code reads GD and that your build year falls inside the 2001-2007 span before ordering.

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Set your launch ride height, choose your spring and damping spec, and build your GD drag kit using the configurator below.