XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda TL UA6-UA7 2004-2008

The fourth-generation Honda TL was built as a near-luxury saloon, which means its factory suspension was tuned for hushed motorway miles rather than the broken, cambered tarmac of a closed special stage. Strip away the soft compliance and the UA6-UA7 platform has decent bones – a stiff unibody, double-wishbone-style front geometry and a willing J32 V6 – but it needs damping that can survive concrete joints and mid-corner ridges without losing the contact patch.

That is exactly the brief XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover answers for the 2004-2008 Honda TL. It is the spec the workshop reaches for when a car has to attack sealed-surface stages, hillclimbs and rough B-road rallies without the chassis pogoing over every patched repair.

What this coilover does for your 2004-2008 Honda TL

Drop these into a UA6 or UA7 TL and the car stops floating over expansion joints. The valving is tuned to swallow sharp vertical inputs – kerbs, drainage humps, that one repaired pothole on the apex – while still keeping the body flat enough to load the outside front tyre. On a saloon this size, that translates into a nose that actually points where you ask it to, and a rear axle that stops shrugging off mid-corner bumps. Ride height is set on the threaded body so you can match the geometry the car was originally designed around once you have stiffer springs in it, rather than dropping the arms into the wrong working range. The result on the road is a TL that feels like it has lost two hundred kilos of slack.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is the spec XYZ Racing developed from its own tarmac rally programme, and the valving philosophy is straight out of that environment. The damper is built to absorb the impact of uneven pavement – to soak the jolt of a large bump, suppress body shock and keep the tyre loaded through the hit so traction does not collapse the moment the surface breaks up. Construction is the standard XYZ monotube layout with a threaded lower body for separate ride-height and preload adjustment, and the damper settings carry over directly from the company’s own tarmac rally cars. It is engineered around sealed-stage rally use first, which is why it also makes sense as a fast-road and trackday set-up on rough UK surfaces – the same valving that copes with a stage caution copes with a poorly surfaced national speed-limit corner.

Fitment for the Honda TL UA6-UA7 (2004-2008)

This kit is built for the UA6 and UA7 chassis codes of the Honda TL, covering the 2004 to 2008 model years. Spring rates, damper lengths and top-mount geometry are specific to the platform, so the kit drops onto factory pickup points without spacer plates or modified mounts.

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Configure your spring rates, ride height and top-mount option for the UA6-UA7 TL below.