XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Mitsubishi 3000 GT / GTO 4WD 1992-1996

The 3000GT/GTO’s twin-turbo V6 sits well forward of the front axle, and on a 4WD platform built for high-speed stability rather than stage work, that weight keeps travelling long after the wheel has turned in. Sealed-stage tarmac events throw crests, compressions and mid-corner camber changes at a car that was never designed to land hard on broken asphalt at pace, and a standard damper either balloons over the hit or bottoms out and unsettles the whole platform.

XYZ Racing’s Tarmac Rally coilover is built specifically around that scenario. Where a fast-road or track coilover is tuned around smooth, repeatable circuit surfaces, this one is set up to absorb the sudden, uneven hits that come from real stage tarmac – the kind of impact that catches a heavy 4WD coupe out mid-corner if the damper can’t keep up.

What this coilover does for your 1992-1996 Mitsubishi 3000 GT / GTO 4WD

Across a stage’s broken sections and mid-corner bumps, the damping absorbs the impact rather than passing it straight into the chassis, so the body stays flatter and the front end doesn’t skip wide when a compression arrives mid-turn. That matters on this car specifically: the 3000GT/GTO’s nose-heavy twin-turbo layout and viscous-coupled 4WD system need the tyres loaded evenly to put power down out of hairpins, and a damper that’s still absorbing the last hit when the next one lands costs you traction exactly when you’re back on the throttle. Suppressing that shock body through the chassis keeps the contact patch working rather than skipping across the surface, which is where this car finds its stability on tarmac stages rather than smooth circuit asphalt. The result is a platform that stays settled over stage-typical bumps instead of pattering or pitching, letting you carry more of the corner speed the AWD system is capable of finding.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is XYZ Racing’s damper built specifically for sealed-stage work rather than circuit or fast-road use. Its valving is tuned to soak up the kind of hard, uneven hits a rally stage produces – broken tarmac, crests, compressions – without the body kicking or the wheel losing contact with the road. That absorption is the point: rather than transmitting a big hit straight into the chassis, the damper takes the jolt and keeps the tyre working, which is what actually delivers traction on a surface that isn’t billiard-table smooth. The settings themselves come from XYZ’s own tarmac rally programme rather than a generic road-damper base, tuned around exactly this kind of stage abuse. On a heavy 4WD platform like the 3000GT/GTO, that matters more than on a lighter car, because there’s more mass for a bad hit to unsettle, and more to bring back under control once it starts moving.

Fitment for the Mitsubishi 3000 GT / GTO 4WD (1992-1996)

Built for the MT03 chassis 3000GT/GTO in 4WD form, covering the full 1992-1996 production run. Confirm your car is the 4WD variant before ordering, as the coilover is specified to this drivetrain rather than the FWD version.

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Pick your Tarmac Rally spec for the 3000GT/GTO 4WD, match it to your stage or hillclimb programme, and configure the exact setup below.