XYZ Racing Street Advanced Coilovers — Honda CL YA1 1996-2000

The Honda CL YA1 – the JDM Accord-platform coupé that never officially came to the UK – sits on a chassis that responds well to ride-height and damping work, but the factory struts are now a quarter-century old and almost certainly tired. The XYZ Racing Street Advanced coilover is the kit that gets a YA1 back to behaving like a sharp late-90s Honda coupé, with the geometry sorted and the body control restored.

This is the Street Advanced specifically because the YA1 spends most of its life on UK B-roads and the occasional track day, not on a slick circuit running shaved Toyos. It is built for road use first and circuit work second, which matches how surviving CLs are actually used in 2026.

What this coilover does for your 1996-2000 Honda CL YA1

Restored damper control is the headline change. With 720-way damping adjustment on each corner, you set the YA1’s compression and rebound to match how you actually drive it – softer for the commute, firmer for a weekend on the Cat & Fiddle. Adjustable ride height lets you drop the nose to fix the slightly tall-on-its-springs factory stance, or keep it conservative to preserve daily ground clearance over speed bumps and entries.

On the road you feel three things straight away: tighter turn-in because the front geometry is no longer fighting a sagging spring, less floaty body movement through quick direction changes, and a chassis that finally tells you what the front tyres are doing mid-corner. For a car that is fundamentally a front-driven coupé, that confidence at the front axle is what makes the YA1 enjoyable rather than just competent.

About the Street Advanced coilover

The Street Advanced is XYZ Racing’s most popular series and the product the company’s own team have been refining for years. Development came out of testing in international racing series, then dialled back into a kit specifically aimed at normal road use and track-day duty rather than full circuit competition. That brief shapes everything about how it is set up.

The headline spec is 720-way damping adjustment, with one knob per damper letting you walk through the full range to find where this particular YA1 wants to sit on your roads, your tyres, your driving style. The construction is built around long-distance road durability as much as outright track pace, which is why XYZ position it as the kit for drivers chasing speed and control without losing the ability to drive the car every day. It is indispensable kit if you want to take a YA1 seriously without converting it into a single-purpose track car.

Fitment for the Honda CL YA1 (1996-2000)

This kit is built specifically for the YA1 chassis-code CL, covering the full 1996-2000 production run. The damper bodies, spring rates and top-mount geometry are matched to the YA1’s strut layout – it is not a generic Accord-platform kit being relabelled.

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Pick the spring rates and any top-mount options for your YA1 in the configurator below.