XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Mitsubishi EVO1-3 4WD 1992-1996

The Evo I-III’s homologation-special chassis was built for Group A rally stages, not for the soft factory dampers Mitsubishi shipped it with. Beneath that boxy Lancer bodywork sits a 4G63T-powered all-wheel-drive platform that reacts sharply under trail-braking and puts torque down through all four corners the moment the turbo spools, which means body control front and rear needs to keep pace with how quickly this car changes direction.

The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover kit for the Mitsubishi EVO1-3 4WD (1992-1996, chassis MT17) is built around that brief: enthusiast street use with a wide enough adjustment window to firm the car up for a track day without turning the daily commute into a chore.

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

Dropping the Evo onto adjustable coilovers gets the centre of gravity down and lets you set ride height independently front and rear, useful on a car whose factory ride height was set as much for rally-stage ground clearance as for road manners. With 720 damping settings to work through, you can wind the rebound and compression up for a session where the AWD system is transferring load hard under braking and off the line, then back it off for the M-roads without touching ride height. The result on this chassis specifically is less of the nose-dive under trail braking that Evo I-III owners know well, and a rear axle that stays planted rather than skipping when the turbo comes on boost mid-corner. Firmer damping also cuts down the body roll that made the softer factory setup feel vague at the front end.

About the Street Advanced coilover

Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s core coilover line, refined over years of development and proven in competition rather than just on a test rig, with the brand’s kits seeing use in races run by teams around the world. It’s pitched as the do-everything option: comfortable enough for a car you drive to work, adjustable enough to take to a track day without swapping in a second set of dampers. The core of that flexibility is a damping circuit with 720 discrete adjustment steps, giving a genuinely fine gradient between comfort and control rather than a handful of coarse clicks. Construction follows the usual coilover format, a threaded body for ride height adjustment wrapped around a damper matched to a linear-rate spring, so stance and damping behaviour become two separate decisions instead of one compromise. For an Evo I-III owner, that combination covers road duty and the occasional trackday from a single kit.

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

This kit is specced for the MT17 chassis Lancer Evolution built between 1992 and 1996, covering Evo I, II and III in their factory all-wheel-drive configuration. Confirm your car matches this chassis code before ordering, as spring rates and shock lengths are set for this generation’s hub and strut geometry and don’t carry over to later Evo generations.

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Set the ride height and damping to suit your own mix of road and track before you commit – configure your Street Advanced kit for the EVO1-3 4WD below.