XYZ Racing Circuit Master Coilovers — Porsche CAYMAN (981) (Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping) 2012-2016

The 981 Cayman’s mid-engine balance is the whole reason people buy one, and it’s also the reason a factory PASM setup can feel muted the moment you start pushing on a circuit. Take the Circuit Master onto a track and that neutral chassis stops fighting you: the mid-mounted flat-six sits low and central, and a coilover built for sustained lap work lets that weight distribution do what it was designed to do instead of masking it under soft factory compliance.

This kit is specifically the Cancellation Kit for Electronic Damping variant, meaning it’s built to physically replace the 981’s PASM electronic dampers rather than work alongside them. That matters for anyone who’s found PASM’s adjustment range too narrow for serious lap-time work – this swaps the electronics out for a fully mechanical, manually adjustable damper you control directly.

What this coilover does for your 2012-2016 Porsche Cayman

With PASM cancelled out, you get direct mechanical control over how the Cayman’s rear-biased weight transfers under braking and corner exit – the exact moment a mid-engine chassis either rewards you or bites back. The Circuit Master’s damping adjustment lets you firm up compression for high-speed direction changes without the ride turning brittle everywhere else, and because the kit replaces the electronic system entirely, there’s no PASM controller fighting your settings lap after a setup change. Ride height adjustment brings the centre of gravity down further, sharpening turn-in on a car that’s already quick to rotate, and having a mechanical baseline means your settings don’t drift session to session the way electronically-mediated damping sometimes can. For a 981 that’s spending real time on circuit, that’s control you can actually repeat.

About the Circuit Master coilover

Circuit Master sits at the top of the XYZ Racing range, built specifically for sustained circuit lap-time work rather than fast-road comfort. The damper uses a three-knob adjustment layout offering 9,720 possible damping combinations, giving enough range to tune compression and rebound independently for a given track surface and corner mix. XYZ develops and validates this design through its own racing teams competing internationally, feeding race-day findings back into the production spec rather than treating it as a shelf product. The small-orifice oil-path design in the damper is tuned for consistency under sustained high-frequency inputs – on rough kerbs or track surface changes you may hear a faint noise from oil passing through the small passage, which is a normal characteristic of this circuit-focused valving, not a fault. Every part of the construction is oriented around one job: holding a set damping character through a full session rather than needing constant readjustment.

Fitment for the Porsche Cayman (981) (2012-2016)

This kit is built for the Porsche Cayman 981 chassis across the 2012-2016 model years, and specifically covers cars fitted with electronic PASM damping – the Cancellation Kit replaces that system’s dampers rather than bolting alongside them. Confirm your car has factory PASM before ordering, as the cancellation hardware is designed around removing that specific electronic setup.

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