XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Porsche CAYENNE 4WD (E2) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2011-2018

The Cayenne 4WD (E2)’s factory PASM electronic dampers were tuned for motorway comfort and light off-road duty, not for holding a two-tonne-plus SUV flat through a closed tarmac stage. This XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover pairs a mechanically valved damper with a cancellation kit that takes the factory electronic damping control out of the loop entirely, so the car answers to spring rate and damper valving alone rather than an ECU second-guessing the driver.

That distinction matters more on a Cayenne than on most cars in this catalogue. Permanent AWD sends load fore and aft through fast direction changes, and the standard PASM calibration was never built for the compression rates a rally stage throws up over broken surfaces and mid-corner camber shifts. Cancelling the electronic side lets the mechanical set-up do the work stage after stage.

What this coilover kit does for your 2011-2018 Porsche Cayenne 4WD (E2)

With the electronic damping cancelled, ride height and damping response come entirely from the coilover’s own valving, removing the lag of an adaptive system trying to interpret rough-road inputs in real time. On a car this heavy, that means more predictable weight transfer under braking into a stage corner and less of the float that stock PASM allows over sequential compressions. Lowered, adjustable ride height also brings the Cayenne’s high centre of gravity down, cutting body roll through the fast transitions permanent AWD encourages the car to carry speed through. The result is a chassis that settles quicker after a big hit and keeps the tyres loaded evenly across all four corners, which on an AWD platform is where traction is actually won or lost.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

XYZ Racing built the Tarmac Rally damper specifically to cope with uneven closed-road surfaces rather than smooth circuit tarmac. The valving is set to soak up sharp edges and larger compressions without transmitting the hit straight into the chassis, which keeps the body settled and stops the tyre unloading the instant it crosses a bump. That control is aimed squarely at keeping contact patch and traction consistent rather than chasing outright stiffness. The settings come directly from XYZ’s own tarmac rally programme, carried over into a road-legal coilover rather than reworked from a circuit product, so the compression and rebound behaviour reflects what the team has actually run on stage.

Fitment for the Porsche Cayenne 4WD (E2) (2011-2018)

Built for the second-generation Cayenne, chassis code E2, in 4WD form across the 2011-2018 production run. Because the E2 range came with factory electronic damping, this kit is supplied with the cancellation adaptor needed to run the mechanical coilover in place of PASM control, rather than alongside it.

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This is a fitment-specific build for the Cayenne 4WD (E2), cancellation kit included as standard – configure yours below.