XYZ Racing Gravel Rally Coilovers — Subaru FORESTER SH 4WD 2007-2012

The Forester SH’s raised ride height and permanent symmetrical AWD were built with loose-surface driving in mind, and the XYZ Racing Gravel Rally coilover is the spec that actually uses that platform for what it can do off tarmac. Where a road-biased coilover chokes travel down for grip on smooth surfaces, this kit keeps stroke long enough to let the SH’s suspension work through sandstone ruts, washboard gravel and mid-corner compression without bottoming out.

It’s built for gravel-stage rally and rally cross use – repeated hard landings, high-speed direction changes over loose surfaces, and the kind of sustained cornering load a tarmac-only damper was never asked to survive. For a Forester SH running events or fast forestry roads rather than a daily commute, that’s the difference between a suspension set that lasts a season and one that doesn’t.

What this coilover does for your 2007-2012 Subaru Forester SH 4WD

Fit this kit to a 2007-2012 Forester SH and the first thing you notice is how much movement the chassis has to work with before the damper runs out of ideas. The long-stroke, long-spring design absorbs chassis vibration from broken gravel and sandstone straight through the wheel rather than into the body, which keeps the SH’s AWD system putting power down instead of hopping over ruts. The inverted-tube construction copes with the mix of surfaces a stage throws at it – sand, snow, silt – without the damping character drifting from one section to the next. Under hard cornering the setup is built to bear the G-force loads the Forester SH generates when its tall centre of gravity is pushed through a fast direction change, keeping the body settled instead of rolling onto the bump stops.

About the Gravel Rally coilover

XYZ Racing built the Gravel Rally coilover specifically around rally and rally cross use, where the road surface is about as aggressive as motorsport gets and the damper carries more of the workload than on any tarmac discipline. The inverted-tube design was chosen to keep the unit working consistently across the surfaces a stage throws up – sandstone, snow, silt – rather than being tuned for one condition. Stroke and spring length are both extended well beyond a tarmac coilover’s spec, giving the suspension room to soak up chassis vibration from high-speed, bouncy roads and to hold the wheel down through the G-force spikes of a fast corner instead of skipping across the surface. Every spring rate offered in the range has been run and validated by a rally racing team rather than set on a test bench alone, so the rates on offer reflect what’s actually survived a stage.

Fitment for the Subaru Forester SH (2007-2012)

This kit is built specifically for the Subaru Forester SH, chassis code SU03, covering 2007-2012 model years in 4WD form. Confirm your Forester SH falls within that build window before ordering, as suspension geometry and mounting points changed between Forester generations.

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Spring rates and damping for the Gravel Rally kit are set per Forester SH build – pick your spec below to configure yours.