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Originally Posted by hayaku
yep.. basically just unscrew and remove the centering pin, loosen the 3 strut nuts and then slide the entire strut inwards towards the engine. On the X5, the stock is set at -2.0 with the centering pin in. Once removed, my adjustment went from -1.9 to -2.3 (measured with a intercomp racing digital camber gauge on a 100% levelled surface on scales and slip plates).
stock rear is toe in. i would only change it if you need to rotate the car more (ie: zero toe), but there are other ways of adjusting the car's behavior for oversteer that is safer then rear toe. I would not go with toe out in the rear.
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Great advice! Thank you!!! 
I will leave my rear toe alone. It seems like the most negative camber i will be able to get is about -.7 degrees. I will take all I can get! From my last alignment I seem to recall that one of my fronts is actually at slightly + camber. That guy might not have been the most competent tech in the world...he spent 20 minutes trying to convince me that my car is an X5 and that there is no such thing as an X3 (seriously...not kidding). Next time I am taking the car to the shop that did the alignment on my track car and did an awesome job.
I do need to get the car to rotate better. Although x-drive allows me to power out of a push I would prefer to have the car rotate a bit more on trail braking. I am having to shave too much speed on turn-in to make the front bite. I think because of the weight of the X3 and the relatively high profile of the tires (50 series) there is this initial pause after the steering input, then a huge weight transfer that unsettles the tires. Once they find grip again the chassis does a great job of utilizing all available grip. It is really well balanced and will rotate a bit with a mid-corner throttle lift but that is obviously not the fast way around a corner. I want it to rotate on turn-in and then be able to use WOT the rest of the way around.
I tried playing with tire pressures with the only resulitng change being more or less squeal. I don't want to go with a bigger rear sway bar because that would take me out of the stock class. Disconnecting the front bar for auto-x seems like an awfully bad idea to me...Whats left??
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