XYZ Racing Circuit Master Coilovers — Mitsubishi EVO1-3 4WD 1992-1996

The original Evo’s 4WD platform was never given the suspension development budget its rally pedigree deserved, and thirty-plus years on, most surviving MT17 cars are still running geometry compromised by tired dampers and mismatched springs. The Circuit Master coilover corrects that, giving the Evo1-3’s all-wheel-drive chassis a damper capable of matching the drivetrain’s traction rather than fighting it.

Built around sustained circuit lap-time work, this is the spec for owners taking a first-generation Evo onto track days and treating it as a serious tool rather than a museum piece. The adjustment range lets you set the car up for a specific circuit and leave it there through a full session.

What this coilover does for your 1992-1996 Mitsubishi EVO1-3 4WD

On a car where the centre differential is already sending power to all four corners, body control at each end matters more than on a two-wheel-drive equivalent – any softness in the rear lets the diff fight the suspension instead of the tarmac. The Circuit Master’s 3-way adjustment knobs give you separate control over compression and rebound, so you can firm up the rear to match the front-biased weight transfer under braking without turning the ride into a pogo stick on street sections between sessions. With 9720 total adjustment combinations available across the range, there’s enough granularity to trim understeer out of the entry phase on a tight infield circuit, then wind it back for a faster, flowing layout the following weekend. Monotube-style damper construction keeps oil temperatures more consistent through repeated hard laps than the tired OEM struts most MT17 cars are still running, which matters when session five feels identical to session one. Ride height is adjustable independently of spring preload, so corner weights can be set properly once the car’s on the scales rather than guessed at.

About the Circuit Master coilover

Circuit Master sits at the top of XYZ Racing’s range, developed specifically for cars campaigned on international circuits rather than fast-road use, and the same damper architecture Cool Bear’s racing teams run in Racing Spec, Drift Spec and Tarmac Rally applications. The headline figure is the adjustment count – 9720 distinct combinations across the compression and rebound circuits, delivered through the three external knobs, giving a genuinely fine-grained window into how the car reacts to kerbs, camber changes and trail-braking rather than a handful of coarse steps. The small-orifice oil-flow design that makes that range possible does produce a faint noise over sharp bumps as damping fluid moves through the narrower passage; that’s a known characteristic of the design rather than a fault, and it’s the trade-off XYZ Racing has made deliberately for track-focused response over big compressions. On an Evo1-3, that fine adjustability is put to particular use – the 4WD system distributes load in a way FWD or RWD chassis don’t, and having compression and rebound tunable independently means you can address rear squat under power without touching how the front end responds to trail-braking.

Fitment for the Mitsubishi EVO1-3 4WD (1992-1996)

Built for the Mitsubishi EVO1-3 4WD, chassis code MT17, covering the 1992 to 1996 model years. This spans the CD9A/CE9A first-generation Evo cars sold with the 4WD drivetrain across that production window – confirm your specific build date falls within this range before ordering.

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Get the MT17’s damping matched to its drivetrain properly – configure your Circuit Master spec below.