XYZ Racing Circuit Master Coilovers — Hyundai TIBURON 1996-2001

The first-generation Hyundai Tiburon was a soft-sprung front-driver built to a price, and that’s exactly the problem on a circuit. The standard chassis rolls early, washes wide into mid-corner, and runs out of damper travel long before the front tyres run out of grip. The Circuit Master coilover is built to rewire that behaviour from the ground up – a fully adjustable platform for owners who are running the HY22 Tiburon on track and want a chassis that finally responds to inputs instead of absorbing them.

This is the most serious kit XYZ Racing offers for sustained lap-time work. It sits a tier above the road-biased Sport range and is aimed squarely at owners who measure their weekends in session laps, not commutes.

What this coilover does for your 1996-2001 Hyundai Tiburon

Underneath a 1990s Korean coupe is a lot of latent potential – light kerb weight, a compact front end, short wheelbase – that the factory suspension simply doesn’t unlock. Fit the Circuit Master and the car finally turns in on the brakes instead of leaning onto its outside front. The 9720 individual damping permutations are not a marketing figure; they exist because circuit work demands you tune bump and rebound independently for the specific corner loads of the track you are running. Lower the car to dial out front-end roll, stiffen the rear to rotate the chassis on a trailing throttle, and the Tiburon starts behaving like the lightweight coupe it always wanted to be. Ride quality on the road becomes firm and busy – this is a track tool first, and XYZ are open about that.

About the Circuit Master coilover

Circuit Master sits at the top of XYZ Racing’s competition catalogue, alongside their Racing Spec, Drift Spec and Tarmac Rally programmes. It has been developed and tested by XYZ race teams on international circuits, which is where the 3-knob adjustment layout comes from – separate bump, rebound and ride-height control that lets a driver or engineer chase setup changes between sessions without pulling the dampers off the car. The 9720-way combination range is a function of those three independent adjusters working together. One quirk worth knowing about up front: the small oil-passage design that gives the damper its precision on smooth tarmac will occasionally produce a faint hydraulic noise over heavy bumps. XYZ flag this in their own documentation as normal behaviour for a circuit-specification damper – the trade-off for the precision the unit delivers on a polished racing surface.

Fitment for the Hyundai Tiburon (1996-2001)

This kit is fitment-specific to the first-generation Hyundai Tiburon, chassis code HY22, model years 1996 to 2001. It is a complete front and rear coilover set engineered around the original mounting points, with no fabrication required for installation.

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The Circuit Master is built for one job – sustained, repeatable lap times in the HY22 Tiburon. Configure your spring rates and ride height options below.