Top Mount, Lolly Pop, Club Sport Steering RackInfo

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Post Fri Jan 25, 2013 5:22 pm

Dan

This is one for the Club sport rack drivers.

I have the M3 camber adjustment top mounts plus the M3 Lolly Pop
Bush's

Is anyone running this set up with the club sport steering rack.

Its a road car and I'm just thinking that there will be a lot offset geometry on the front end.

What do we think?
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Post Fri Jan 25, 2013 5:33 pm

Ill be interested too as Ive just purchased the 067 rack and have poly adjustable bushes for the control arms

Sorry to hijack the thread

thanks
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Post Fri Jan 25, 2013 11:06 pm

Rack is irrelevant to the geometry, as long as it's mounted where it should be.
Offset CABs mainly change the castor angle, only having a small effect on camber.
What are you trying to achieve with the M3 camber adjustable mounts? You won't need much more than is standard on a road car.
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Post Fri Jan 25, 2013 11:13 pm

There are camber correction top mounts available for all BMW E30 RWD models which are often referred to as M3 top mounts.

They give +/- 30 min (half a degree) of camber.

Item 1,

http://realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?mod ... g=31&fg=10

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On my old S50E30 i had these top mounts set to - camber and the eccentric wishbone bushes combined with an E36 rack.

There are no geometry issues relating to the rack as Brian says as long as it is positioned correctly in the subframe.
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