Workin on the car and a nice Datsun

With out current cars suspension pretty well shot, I managed to pick up these off of Yahoo Auctions -

 Over $2k worth of suspension for about a fifth of that.  I love Yahoo Auctions.  They aren't the stiff and more adjustable "racing" type I would like but for a family I thought they were a nice compromise. 



Having someone install them would cost a bit and I was confident I could do them my self.  Having a small garage and no quality car jack made a trip to the "Rental Pit" at TRIAL a necessity.  I brought my friend Nakazawa to help out and off we went-

As I had figured, the installation went pretty smoothly.  Next was the hard part. The alignment.  For some reason alignments cost three times what they do in the states.  I have no idea why.  After some reading and some tools bought for the job, I thought I would have a go at doing it myself.  

Maki, the owner of the place came out to help me with the measurements-

In the end, I ran out of daylight and didn't have the right setup.  I paid $260 for an alignment!  HA!  What the hell!?

This Datsun outside my apartment made me feel better though-