Toyota CELICA ST185 4WD TURBO (Mcpherson Type) 1989-1993 — Coilovers

The ST185-generation Celica GT-Four was built to homologate Toyota’s Group A rally car, and it carries the weight to prove it: a transverse 3S-GTE turbo plus the front half of a full-time four-wheel-drive system, all sitting over the nose. That front-biased mass is what every spring and damper choice on this car has to answer for. This XYZ Racing coilover range for the 1989-1993 Toyota Celica ST185 4WD Turbo (MacPherson type) replaces the soft, long-travel factory struts with height- and damping-adjustable units that let you control how that nose settles into a corner.

Because the ST185 left the factory tuned for compliance over rough special stages, the standard setup leans on body roll and dive far more than fast-road or circuit use wants. A coilover lets you lower the centre of gravity, firm up the front to curb understeer, and set corner balance to suit whether the car runs on tarmac, gravel, or a mix of both.

What this coilover does for your 1989-1993 Toyota Celica ST185 4WD Turbo

Drop the ride height and you immediately shrink the weight transfer that makes a heavy-nosed GT-Four wash wide on turn-in. Independent damping adjustment lets you add front compression to hold the strut up under braking, then back off the rear to keep the four-wheel-drive system putting power down cleanly on corner exit. On the road the payoff is a flatter, more planted stance and steering that stops feeling vague off-centre. On track or stage, it is the freedom to tune the ST185 away from its built-in understeer without resorting to crude spring swaps. Corner-weight adjustment also lets you offset the driver and fuel load the factory geometry never accounted for.

About the coilover range

Every kit in this range is a full coilover assembly, not a lowering spring on a stock damper. The strut bodies are threaded for independent ride-height adjustment, so you set how low the car sits separately from how much spring travel you keep – important on a heavy 4WD car where slamming it ruins both geometry and bump compliance. The family spans nine specifications, from Street Advanced and Super Sport for fast-road use, through Top Sport and Circuit Master for track work, to dedicated Tarmac Rally, Gravel Rally and Pro Rally builds that suit the ST185’s competition roots, plus a Drift Spec and a full Racing Spec. Spring rates, damper valving and adjustment range step up across the range, so the spec you pick should match how hard and how often the car is driven.

Fitment for the Toyota Celica ST185 4WD Turbo (1989-1993)

These coilovers are cut for the MacPherson-strut, four-wheel-drive ST185 Celica – chassis family TO18 – covering the 1989 to 1993 model years. They are specific to the turbocharged GT-Four 4WD layout, not the front-drive ST182/ST183 Celicas, which use different front struts.

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Nine specifications, one chassis – pick the ST185 setup that matches how you drive and configure yours below.