XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Honda S2000 AP1/AP2 1999-2009

The S2000’s chassis was always the interesting half of the conversation. A 50:50 weight distribution, a rear-drive layout wrapped around an F20C or F22C that wanted 9,000rpm, and a kerb weight under 1,300kg meant the AP1 and AP2 arrived sharper than almost anything else in the segment – but also more honest about their suspension. The standard dampers wash out under repeat load, the AP1 in particular shows its snap-oversteer reputation the moment a mid-corner bump unsettles the rear, and ride height drift over 100,000 miles is now the rule rather than the exception.

The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover for the Honda S2000 AP1/AP2 is built for owners who use the car the way Honda intended – twisty B-roads on Sunday, the occasional Cadwell or Donington track day, and a daily commute that still has to deal with British surfacing. It re-stiffens the platform without the brittleness that ruins an S2000 on a cold morning.

What this coilover does for your 1999-2009 Honda S2000 AP1/AP2

Drop the car onto a set of Super Sports and the first thing you feel is body control returning. The 36-way damping range is wide enough that you can run the rears softer than the fronts to calm AP1 lift-off rotation, then firm everything up for a trackday without unbolting a thing. Adjustable ride height lets you set the front roll centre properly – most lowered S2000s on lesser kits sit nose-down and bind the lower arms; here you can dial the rake the chassis actually wants. Turn-in sharpens, the rear stops floating over crests at the end of a long straight, and braking into a downhill hairpin no longer feels like the back axle is making its own decisions. For a car that will see motorway miles between sessions, the damper still rounds off sharp expansion joints rather than crashing through them.

About the Super Sport coilover

Super Sport sits in XYZ Racing’s middle tier – the damper designed specifically to bridge fast-road and weekend track work without committing the owner to either extreme. The headline spec is 36-way bump-and-rebound adjustment on a single knob per corner, giving a genuinely usable spread between a road setting and a circuit setting. Ride height is independently adjustable from the lower mount, so spring preload stays consistent as the car is dropped – the right way to lower a chassis without binding the damper stroke. XYZ has tuned the valving to soak up surface imperfections that earlier-generation coilovers transmitted straight into the cabin, which matters on a stiff-shelled roadster like the S2000 where every bump finds the bulkhead. The construction is built to take repeat heat cycles from a track session and still settle back to a compliant road tune the following morning.

Fitment for the Honda S2000 (1999-2009)

This kit is specified for the HN47 chassis covering both the AP1 (1999-2003) and AP2 (2004-2009) generations of the Honda S2000. Spring rates and damper valving are matched to the car’s factory geometry and the full ten-year production span, so it suits the early 2.0 F20C cars and the later 2.2 F22C revision without modification.

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Pick your spring rates, top mounts and ride height in the configurator below to build your S2000 Super Sport kit.