XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda ODYSSEY RA1~RA5 (WISHBONE) 1995-1999

The first-generation Odyssey RA1-RA5 sits in an odd niche: a tall, wishbone-suspended people-mover that Honda built on a car-like platform rather than a van chassis. That double-wishbone front end is the reason this thing is even a candidate for a proper rally damper – the geometry is there, the body roll on standard springs is the problem. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is the suspension you fit when you have decided the RA-series is going to keep its nose pointed at a sealed apex on a closed road.

This is a sealed-stage tarmac specification, not a fast-road kit dressed up in stage tape. It is built to keep an RA1 or RA5 settled over crests, mid-corner ripples, and the broken patches that show up on UK tarmac stages, while still carrying the kind of body mass that an Odyssey brings to the party.

What this coilover does for your 1995-1999 Honda Odyssey

A standard RA-series rolls heavily and pitches forward under braking – that is the cost of the high roofline and the soft factory tune. The Tarmac Rally damper attacks both problems together: stiffer control over compression keeps the nose from diving into the bumpstops on stage braking zones, and the rebound side stops the rear from wallowing as you transfer load back on throttle.

On rough tarmac the work is more subtle. The damper is tuned to absorb the high-frequency hit from broken pavement and stage repairs without unloading the contact patch, so the tyre stays planted when the surface is doing its worst. The result is a chassis that will hold a line through a fast sweeper, brake straight on a downhill braking zone, and put torque down out of a slow hairpin instead of sliding the inside front wide.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ’s sealed-tarmac specification, developed from the company’s own rally programme rather than adapted from a circuit kit. The damping is set to absorb the impact of uneven pavement and the jolt of bigger bumps, while suppressing body shock so the shell stops moving before the next input arrives. That is the bit that matters on a stage – a damper that settles the car between bumps gives the tyre time to grip, and grip is what produces the stage time.

XYZ describe the philosophy as carrying every setting across from their Tarmac Rally racing experience, and that comes through in the bias of the tune: vehicle stability over outright softness, traction-led rather than comfort-led. For a tall, heavy chassis like the RA-series Odyssey, that bias is the right one. The kit is built around the wishbone front layout the RA1-RA5 shares, so the damper geometry suits the car as the factory designed it.

Fitment for the Honda Odyssey (1995-1999)

This kit fits the first-generation Honda Odyssey RA1 through RA5 with the wishbone front suspension, covering the 1995-1999 production run. Confirm your chassis code matches the RA1-RA5 range before ordering – the second-generation RA6 onwards uses a different layout and is not covered by this part number.

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