XYZ Racing Pro Racing Gravel/Snow Coilovers — Mitsubishi LANCER (CHINA MARKET ONLY) 1997-2006

Loose-surface racing punishes suspension in ways tarmac never does, and the XYZ Racing Pro Racing Gravel/Snow coilover for the Mitsubishi Lancer (China Market Only) is built around that reality. Where a circuit damper is tuned for short, tightly controlled travel, this kit gives the 1997-2006 Lancer the longer stroke a gravel or snow stage demands, keeping the chassis settled when the wheels are dropping into ruts and kicking back over crests.

The Lancer nameplate earned its name on rally stages, and this is the part that lets an MT28-1 car go back to doing what it does best. It is set up for rally and rallycross duty first, with enough damping range to make a club-stage or fast-road car composed rather than nervous on broken ground.

What these coilovers do for your 1997-2006 Mitsubishi Lancer (China Market Only)

The extra suspension travel front and rear is the change you feel first. Over a rutted gravel section the wheels stay loaded for longer, so the Lancer keeps drive and steering bite where a shorter-travel kit would be skipping and unloading. The larger oil and nitrogen gas volume inside each damper means the fluid takes far longer to heat-soak, so the car feels the same on stage mile ten as it did on mile one. Three separate adjustment knobs let you tune the damping to the surface, softening for a rough forest stage or firming up for a hard-packed snow road. The bigger buffer distance also buys you a margin of error when a landing arrives heavier than planned.

About the Pro Racing Gravel/Snow coilover

The Pro Racing Gravel/Snow coilover is engineered for rally and rallycross use, which is why every design choice points towards loose-surface durability rather than outright tarmac stiffness. Both ends run noticeably longer travel than a circuit kit, increasing the buffer distance that keeps the car stable when the ground drops away beneath it. XYZ Racing has increased the volume of both damper oil and nitrogen gas inside each unit, and that larger reservoir of fluid is the key to its endurance: it resists the temperature build-up that exhausts a smaller damper after sustained hard running, so performance holds across a long stage. Control comes from three adjustment knobs, and the design routes oil through a small passage on big hits. That can produce a faint noise as the fluid moves through the smaller orifice over a large bump, which is normal behaviour for this damper and not a fault.

Fitment for the Mitsubishi Lancer (China Market Only) (1997-2006)

This kit is cut specifically for the Mitsubishi Lancer (China Market Only), chassis code MT28-1, covering the 1997 to 2006 production span. It is a market-specific fitment, so confirm your car carries the MT28-1 chassis designation before ordering rather than assuming parity with other global Lancer variants of the same era.

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Set your ride height and damping to suit the surfaces you actually run, then configure your spec below.