XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Porsche CAYMAN 718 (982) GT4 RS 2022-2026

Launch a mid-engine, rear-drive car hard off the line and physics does you a favour before you’ve even touched the clutch: weight transfers backward onto the driven axle the instant the nose lifts. The 982 GT4 RS already carries its naturally aspirated 4.0-litre flat six low and behind the driver, so the platform starts from a rearward weight bias few front-engined cars can match. The XYZ Racing Drag Racing coilover for the Porsche Cayman 718 (982) GT4 RS is built around that advantage, controlling how much of that weight lands on the rear contact patch in the first metre of a run rather than leaving it to chance.

Where a road or track-day setup is tuned to resist weight transfer through a corner, this kit is tuned to use it under acceleration. Front and rear ride height and damping are set independently so the car squats onto its rear tyres at launch instead of sitting flat, giving the drive wheels more vertical load exactly when they need to put power down cleanly.

What this coilover does for your 2022-2026 Porsche Cayman 718 (982) GT4 RS

Fitted to the GT4 RS, this kit changes how the car behaves specifically in the first few seconds of a straight-line run. Lowering the front and adjusting rear ride height shifts static weight rearward before the car has even moved, so the rear tyres start the launch already carrying more load than the road setup gives them. That reduces the amount of wheelspin the flat six’s power has to fight through off the line, which matters on a car with this much torque available low in the rev range. Because the geometry change is deliberate rather than a byproduct of soft springs, the mid-engine chassis stays composed rather than squatting unpredictably, so the car tracks straight under full throttle instead of wandering as weight shifts. The result is more of each run spent with the rear tyres loaded and gripping, rather than spinning up before they hook.

About the Drag Racing coilover

XYZ Racing’s Drag Racing coilover is built for 0-400m straight-line runs, and works the same way whether it’s fitted to a front-, rear- or four-wheel-drive car: front and rear ride height are set independently so the car’s static weight distribution can be shifted toward whichever axle actually drives it. On a rear-drive platform like the 982 GT4 RS, that means loading the rear during the launch phase rather than leaving weight sitting over the nose. More load on the driven tyres means a larger, more consistent contact patch under full throttle, which cuts down the time the tyres spend spinning rather than gripping and helps the car settle into a straight, stable run instead of stepping sideways off the line. It’s a deliberately different remit to a road or track coilover, where the priority is resisting weight transfer through corners rather than using it to your advantage on a straight.

Fitment for the Porsche CAYMAN 718 (982) GT4 RS (2022-2026)

This kit is specced for the 982-chassis Cayman GT4 RS built between 2022 and 2026. Confirm your car matches this chassis code and production span before ordering, as coilover geometry is set per generation and won’t carry across to other 718-series Cayman or Boxster variants.

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Set your ride height and damping for the 982 GT4 RS to match how you’ll actually run it at the strip – configure yours below.