XYZ Racing Drag Racing Coilovers — Mitsubishi ECLIPSE TURBO 4WD 1989-1995

Straight-line launches put a different set of loads through a chassis than a fast road or a track corner ever will, and the first-generation Eclipse Turbo 4WD’s all-wheel-drive hardware makes weight transfer at launch the whole ballgame. XYZ Racing’s Drag Racing coilover for the MT13 chassis is built around that single problem: getting enough load onto the rear tyres in the first tenth of a second without unsettling the car for the rest of the pass.

This is a dedicated 0-400m setup, not a repurposed street or track spec with softer springs bolted on. It’s built for FWD, RWD and 4WD platforms alike, which tells you the core idea is generic to drag prep even though this kit is specced for the Eclipse’s 4WD driveline and 1989-1995 body.

What this coilover does for your 1989-1995 Mitsubishi ECLIPSE TURBO 4WD

The setup lets you shift front-to-rear weight bias on demand as you prepare for a run, moving load onto the drive wheels in the instant the transmission takes up drive. On a 4WD Eclipse that means getting the front tyres to unload and the rear-biased torque split to find grip immediately, rather than a beat later once the chassis has already settled. Practically, that translates to greater compression at the contact patch under launch, which cuts wheel idle time – the tyre spinning free before it hooks up – and keeps the car tracking straight rather than snaking down the strip. For an AWD platform that’s naturally harder to unsettle than a two-wheel-drive car but also harder to load evenly front-to-rear, that control over weight transfer is the difference between a clean 60-foot and a wasted one.

About the Drag Racing coilover

XYZ Racing built this range specifically around 0-400m drag racing, with application across FWD, RWD and 4WD cars rather than tuning for one drivetrain layout. The defining feature is adjustable weight distribution: the driver can alter how much load sits over the front versus rear axle as the car stages, so that when the transmission engages, the drive wheels are already carrying the compression they need. That’s a different design brief to a fast-road or circuit coilover, where the priority is consistent mid-corner body control over a lap. Here, the entire kit is optimised around the first moment of throttle application and the stability that follows through the run, with construction aimed at repeated hard launches rather than sustained cornering loads.

Fitment for the Mitsubishi ECLIPSE TURBO 4WD (1989-1995)

This kit is specced to the MT13 chassis code, covering the Mitsubishi Eclipse Turbo 4WD built between 1989 and 1995 – the first-generation, all-wheel-drive turbo cars. Confirm your Eclipse is the 4WD turbo variant from this production run before ordering, as coilover geometry differs between the FWD and 4WD versions of this generation.

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Configure the Drag Racing spec for your MT13 Eclipse below and get your launch setup dialled to the strip.