XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Mercedes-Benz CLA C117 2013-2019

The C117 CLA carries its mass over the nose, with a transverse engine sitting ahead of the front-axle line and, across most of the range, drive going to the front wheels. Off a standing start that layout works against you: the contact patch that has to put the power down is the same end that goes light as the car squats. The XYZ Racing Drag Racing coilover for the Mercedes Benz CLA C117 is built to manage that transfer rather than leave it to chance.

This is a launch-focused setup, not a circuit compromise. The valving and ride-height settings are aimed at the 0 to 400 metre run, loading the driven axle hard at the hit and keeping the car settled as speed climbs. For a 2013-2019 CLA being run down a strip or a private mile, it is the spec that treats the launch as the event.

What this coilover does for your 2013-2019 Mercedes Benz CLA C117

Set up correctly, you feel it in the first car length. Lowering the front and adding rake shifts static load toward the driven tyres, so the CLA bites instead of lighting up the fronts when the boost arrives – useful on a turbocharged car that makes its torque in a hurry. The firmer launch settings cut the dead time between throttle and traction, which is where a front-drive CLA usually loses its 60-foot. As the car gains speed the same coilovers keep the body flat and the steering honest, so a twitch at 100mph-plus does not turn into a lift. Ride height is adjustable, so you can corner-balance the car and set the rake that suits your tyre and surface.

About the Drag Racing coilover

XYZ Racing builds the Drag Racing coilover for one job: the standing-start sprint over 0 to 400 metres. It is offered for front-, rear- and four-wheel-drive cars, because the way weight needs to move off the line changes with the driven axle, and the setup is configured to suit. The principle is deliberate weight management – the coilover is set to throw load onto whichever tyres are doing the driving, forcing that contact patch into greater compression at the instant of launch. Loading the tyre that hard does two things: it shortens the spell where the wheel is spinning rather than gripping, and it steadies the car as the numbers climb toward terminal speed. On the front-drive C117 CLA that means getting the nose to plant and the driven tyres to hook instead of scrabbling. It is a single-purpose tool, configured around the launch rather than around lap times or ride comfort.

Fitment for the Mercedes Benz CLA C117 (2013-2019)

This kit is cut for the C117 CLA built from 2013 to 2019, the first-generation four-door coupe on Mercedes’ transverse MFA platform. Confirm your chassis code reads C117 and that your build year falls inside the 2013-2019 span before ordering. Fitment covers the C117 CLA range across that period.

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Set your ride height, rake and corner balance to match your surface – configure your CLA C117 Drag Racing coilover spec below.