Rear lowerering suspension alignment

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Turbo-Brown
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Post Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:23 pm

HELP!

What do I do?!

How do I get rid of the negative camber? Is it something I can get the stealer to sort out?

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Post Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:39 pm

A little bit of camber is ok, how much have you lowered it? I think anything up to about 3cm lower would be ok. I don't know about factory parts but I got some K-Mac adjustable trailing arm bushes for mine. They just replace the standard trailing arm bushes but adjust for camber and toe.

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Post Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:40 pm

you can get eccentric trailing arm bushings from BMW, but i dont think they are very effective (does anyone know how much camber correction you can get from the offset bushings?). there are adjustable aftermarket bushings available too but i have heard they dont hold their adjustment very well

there are other options but they can be a bit more involved (modifying subframe etc)
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Post Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:16 pm

Supposedly it's having a 40mm drop (got the bilstein sport line kit I think)

Will give it a go I guess.

Any more info on the adjustable bushes?
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Post Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:24 pm

http://e30m3performance.com/tech_articl ... c_bush.htm


Fairly good info on the K-Mac ones, I assume any eccentric bush would be similar though.
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