XYZ Racing Super Sport Coilovers — Honda CIVIC EF CRX TWIN CAM (Rear EYE) 1989-1991

The EF-generation Civic and CRX twin-cam cars sit on a chassis that rewards momentum and punishes a soft setup – light, short-wheelbase, and with the front-end bias that defined Honda’s early double-wishbone era. Drop the spring rate too far and the nose pitches into the kerb; leave it factory-soft and the rear EYE-spec beam refuses to settle on turn-in. The XYZ Racing Super Sport coilover is built specifically for the owner who still drives a 1989-1991 Civic EF or CRX on UK B-roads and the occasional Sunday at Cadwell or Castle Combe.

This is the fast-road-with-track-weekends spec in the XYZ Racing range – a step above pure street kit, a step below the dedicated Top Sport circuit damper. It gives EF and CRX owners genuine height and damping control without making the car painful on a cold Monday commute.

What this coilover does for your 1989-1991 Honda Civic EF CRX TWIN CAM (rr EYE)

Drop the EF onto a properly damped coilover and the chassis finally does what the twin-cam engine has been asking of it for thirty-odd years. Ride height adjustment lets you set rake correctly on a car whose factory arch gap has always looked apologetic, and the 36-way damping range means you can run a firmer compression setting for a trackday morning and back it off three or four clicks for the drive home. The Super Sport’s bump compliance is the headline change owners notice first – the EF’s short wheelbase amplifies every poor patch of tarmac, and a well-damped coilover stops the rear EYE assembly skipping under mid-corner bumps. Turn-in sharpens, the front end stays planted under trail-braking into a slow hairpin, and the rear stops feeling nervous on camber changes. For a car this light, the difference between an OE strut and a properly valved coilover is the difference between a hot hatch and a serious tool.

About the Super Sport coilover

The Super Sport sits in XYZ Racing’s range as the dual-purpose damper – the one engineered to eliminate the harshness most coilover buyers fear, while still giving genuine adjustability for circuit use. Ride height is fully adjustable at each corner, and damping is set across 36 discrete clicks, which gives meaningful resolution when you are sweeping between a road tune and a track tune without having to swap springs. XYZ’s brief for the Super Sport is explicit: bump and rebound control that copes with broken UK road surfaces without going wooden, paired with enough body control for weekend race use. Construction follows the standard XYZ Racing format – a serviceable damper body, pillowball top mounts where the chassis allows, and spring rates chosen for the weight and balance of the host car rather than a one-size-fits-all rate. For a chassis as light as the EF/CRX, that car-specific calibration is what makes the kit feel honest rather than over-sprung.

Fitment for the Honda CIVIC EF CRX TWIN CAM (rr EYE) (1989-1991)

This kit is built for the EF-generation Civic and CRX twin-cam variants running the rear EYE suspension – chassis reference HN11 – across the 1989 to 1991 production window. Confirm your car matches the rear EYE designation before ordering, as XYZ Racing publishes separate kits for the alternative EF rear setups in this era.

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Set your ride height, pick your damping preference, and configure your Super Sport coilover for the EF below.