XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Scion TC 2011-2016

The second-generation Scion TC carries its weight over the nose, and on a broken sealed stage that front bias is exactly what punishes a soft factory damper. XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilovers for the Scion TC (2011-2016) are built for that surface: quick-changing crests, patched asphalt and the kerb strikes that come with attacking a tarmac special. The brief is traction first, keeping the front tyres planted where the standard struts would skip and wash the car wide.

This is the rally-surface end of the XYZ range, not a fast-road compromise. The settings come straight from the company’s own Tarmac Rally competition programme, tuned to soak up sharp impacts without letting the SC01-1 chassis pitch and float between corners.

What this coilover kit does for your 2011-2016 Scion TC

Fit these and the first thing you feel is composure over surfaces that used to unsettle the car. The damping is set to absorb the jolt of a big mid-corner bump and recover instantly, so the contact patch stays loaded and the front axle keeps biting rather than skating. On the 2.5-litre tC that means less of the lazy understeer push the platform is known for when you load the nose into a tightening bend. Ride height comes down on the threaded bodies, dropping the centre of gravity and calming the body roll the standard coupe carries. Across a rough sealed stage the shock that normally reaches the shell is suppressed, which keeps the car stable under braking and gives you a cleaner read of the grip you have to work with.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally coilover is engineered around one job: keeping a competition car controllable on uneven pavement. Where a circuit damper is tuned for billiard-smooth asphalt, this kit is valved to absorb the impact of broken and patched surfaces, swallowing the big hits a stage throws at the suspension and damping out the secondary movement before it reaches the body. The priority running through the design is tyre traction – a wheel that follows the road instead of bouncing clear of it puts power down and turns in with more authority. The payoff is the kind of vehicle stability that lets you commit to a corner you can only half see. None of this is theoretical: the valving and spring settings are carried over from XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally competition experience, so what you bolt to the Scion TC is a known quantity rather than a catalogue guess.

Fitment for the Scion TC (2011-2016)

This kit is built specifically for the SC01-1 generation Scion TC, covering the 2011 to 2016 model years. It is a direct replacement for the factory struts and dampers front and rear on that chassis. Confirm your build year falls inside the 2011-2016 span before ordering and the rest of the spec follows the platform.

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Choose your spring and ride-height options and configure your Scion TC Tarmac Rally coilovers below.