XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Kia FORTE 2009-2017

The Kia Forte sits in an awkward spot for tarmac rally builds – a front-drive saloon with a softly-sprung factory setup that was never asked to deal with mid-corner crests or kerb strikes at pace. The Tarmac Rally coilover is the XYZ Racing answer for owners running a Forte on sealed special stages, where the surface looks like road but punishes the chassis like a circuit with no run-off.

Where the Top Sport sibling is built for smooth tarmac and the Super Sport for fast road, this is the kit that assumes you will be hitting compressions hard, loaded up, with the inside wheel light. It keeps the Forte’s nose planted on turn-in without beating the driver up on the transit between stages.

What this coilover does for your 2009-2017 Kia Forte

The Tarmac Rally damping curve is the headline change you will feel in the Forte. Mid-corner bumps that previously unloaded the front axle and triggered understeer get absorbed rather than skipped over, which means the front tyres stay loaded and steering input keeps translating into direction change. Over kerbs and broken edges the chassis settles within one movement instead of three, so you can carry throttle earlier on stage exits.

Ride height drops are adjustable so you can set the Forte’s stance and corner weights for the surface, and the platform construction handles the repeated heat cycling that a tarmac stage day puts through the dampers without fading. Bigger compressions – the kind that make a standard Forte bottom out and skip wide – are caught and controlled.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

This is a damper engineered specifically for tarmac rally use, with valving settings carried over from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally programme. The damping is tuned to absorb the impact of uneven pavement, soaking up jolts across big bumps and suppressing shock to the body so the tyres stay in contact with the surface for longer. That contact patch stability is what increases traction and gives you the chassis predictability that lets a driver commit on a stage.

Construction is built around stage-day reliability rather than circuit-only smoothness. The settings package draws directly on what the XYZ Racing tarmac rally programme has learnt from competition use, so this is not a re-badged road coilover with stiffer springs – it is a different damper for a different job, with the geometry adjustability rally cars need for setup changes between stages.

Fitment for the Kia Forte (2009-2017)

This kit is built for the Kia Forte chassis code KI07, covering model years 2009 through 2017. Front and rear damper geometry is matched to the Forte’s factory mounting points, with ride-height adjustment across the platform.

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Pick your Tarmac Rally spec for the Forte below and configure the kit to suit your stage setup.