XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda TL UA4-UA5 1999-2003

The UA4/UA5 Honda TL is an unusual rally weapon – a 3.2 V6 saloon with a long wheelbase and a kerb weight that punishes lazy damping the moment the road surface breaks up. On a sealed stage, the standard car wallows over compressions, runs out of front-end bite mid-corner, and the rear steps out of phase with the front because the OE dampers were tuned for boulevard ride, not third-gear esses. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover is the answer for owners running these cars on closed-road tarmac events where the surface is grippy but rarely smooth.

This is not a fast-road kit pressed into rally service. The Tarmac Rally type is built around the specific shock absorption demands of broken asphalt – kerbs, patched repairs, mid-corner ridges – while keeping the tyre planted long enough to put 225bhp of front-driven V6 down the road.

What this coilover does for your 1999-2003 Honda TL

Fit the Tarmac Rally to a UA4 or UA5 TL and the chassis stops fighting itself over rough sealed stages. Big single hits – the sort that used to send the front through its travel and unsettle the line – get absorbed without bottoming. Smaller ridges and surface changes stop telegraphing through the steering, so the front tyres keep working when the road surface stops being smooth. The body stays calmer over compressions, which means the rear axle stops pogo-ing and the car tracks straighter under braking into off-camber turns. Traction off slow corners is the other gain: with the dampers holding the contact patch down through bumps, the front diff has something to push against instead of scrabbling. For drivers who use the TL on tarmac stages or closed-road events, the result is a car that feels willing rather than overwhelmed when the surface goes against it.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally type is engineered specifically to absorb impact from uneven pavement – the broken edges, patched repairs, and compression ridges that define a real tarmac stage. The damping is built to suppress body movement over big hits while keeping the tyre loaded for traction, rather than skipping across the surface the way an over-stiff track damper would. Every setting on this kit comes out of XYZ Racing’s own Tarmac Rally programme, so the valving reflects what the team learned from stage-spec cars rather than a generic motorsport baseline. Vehicle stability through the rough stuff is the brief: the chassis stays composed, the steering stays honest, and the driver gets to commit. Construction follows XYZ’s standard motorsport-grade build, with ride-height and damping adjustment so the kit can be set for a specific stage profile or driver preference.

Fitment for the Honda TL UA4-UA5 (1999-2003)

This kit is built for the fourth-generation Honda TL on the UA4 and UA5 chassis codes, covering the 1999 through 2003 model years. Both the V6 UA5 and four-cylinder UA4 share the same suspension hard points, so the coilover fits across the range.

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Pick your spring rates, damping spec and ride height in the configurator below to build the kit to your stage requirements.