XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Kia SOUL PS 2014-2019

The Kia Soul PS is an unusual rally base – tall, boxy, front-driven, and built on a chassis that was tuned for school runs rather than special stages. That body-in-white wants to roll, the front struts run out of travel quickly when you load them up over a crested junction, and the standard dampers were never asked to control a car being driven in anger on a closed road. The XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally coilover rewrites that brief from the ground up.

This is the sealed-stage tarmac kit, built around the damping settings XYZ Racing has carried over from its own tarmac rally programme. It is aimed at PS Soul owners running closed-road events, sprints, and hillclimbs – drivers who need a damper that survives mid-corner ridges, painted kerbs, and the occasional drainage channel without packing down or rebounding the car off line.

What this coilover does for your 2014-2019 Kia Soul

The first thing you notice is what the damper does over a sharp input – a tar strip, a sunken manhole, the edge of a re-laid surface. Where the OE struts crash through and unload the contact patch, the Tarmac Rally kit absorbs the hit and keeps the tyre planted. Body movements are reined in without making the chassis brittle, so the Soul stops pitching onto its nose under braking and stops rolling onto the outside front mid-corner. Traction off slow hairpins improves because the inside rear stays loaded rather than skipping. Across a sustained run of broken tarmac, the chassis stays composed instead of getting progressively more flustered – which is exactly the failure mode that costs you time in a road-based stage.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is engineered for one job: keeping a competition car planted on uneven, sealed-surface stages. The damping curve is set to absorb the impact of broken pavement and to suppress the shock travelling into the body, so the suspension goes back to working the tyre rather than upsetting the chassis. The brief is mechanical grip on a road that is constantly trying to take it away from you – kerbs, ruts, frost-heaved patches, expansion joints taken at speed. Spring and valving choices are drawn from XYZ Racing’s own tarmac rally settings, so the kit arrives with a baseline that has been signed off in stage conditions rather than a generic fast-road tune. The result is a damper that lets the Soul feel stable and predictable when the surface beneath it is anything but.

Fitment for the Kia SOUL (2014-2019)

This kit is built specifically for the PS-chassis Kia Soul covering the 2014 to 2019 model years. The strut dimensions, top-mount geometry, and spring rates are matched to the PS platform – it is not a shortened version of a kit for another car. Confirm your chassis code reads PS before ordering.

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