XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Honda TL UA4-UA5 1999-2003

The UA4-UA5 TL left the factory as a soft, nose-heavy front-drive V6 saloon – composed on a motorway, but vague the instant you ask it to put power down in anger. The XYZ Racing Drag Racing coilover rewrites that brief, setting the car up to plant its driven front tyres at launch rather than waste the first car-length spinning.

This is a 0-400 metre tool above all else. Ride height and damping are configured around how the TL shifts its mass off the line, loading the contact patch that actually does the work instead of letting the nose float and the revs flare.

What this coilover does for your 1999-2003 Honda TL UA4-UA5

Height adjustment lets you set a deliberate nose-down rake and a launch-ready ride height, so the TL squats predictably onto its front axle as the torque loads up. The damping control firms that initial weight shift, cutting the lazy pitch the standard dampers allow and getting the driven tyres into the tarmac sooner. What you feel is a cleaner, more repeatable getaway and a saloon that stays settled as speed climbs down the strip, rather than wallowing on its soft factory springs. When the car is not staging, you can wind ride quality back towards something street-usable.

About the Drag Racing coilover

XYZ Racing builds the Drag Racing coilover around a single job: the standing-start sprint to 400 metres. The engineering brief is weight management – the setup is tuned to throw the car’s mass towards whichever axle drives it, so on a front-drive TL the front tyres take a heavier load exactly when they need grip. That extra compression on the driven contact patch is what trims wheelspin and shortens the dead time before the car hooks up and goes. The same logic carries through the top end, holding the car stable as speeds rise instead of letting a heavy saloon turn nervous. It is a focused, single-discipline coilover – shared across front-, rear- and four-wheel-drive platforms in the range – not a fast-road all-rounder.

Fitment for the Honda TL (1999-2003)

This kit is mapped to the UA4-UA5 generation of the Honda TL, covering the 1999 to 2003 model years. It is built for that specific chassis, so the mounting points and strut dimensions suit the platform directly. Confirm your chassis code reads UA4 or UA5 before ordering and you are on the correct kit.

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Set your height, rake and damping to suit the way you launch, and configure your UA4-UA5 kit below.