GRR my 240's suspension is testing my patience..

[Sixbanger]

Sorry guys, just have to vent after today's suspension adventure. When I bought my '96 240 a couple months back, it had very negative rear camber. I thought it was no big deal considering the car has eccentric bushings to dial this out. Not so, turns out when I got a cheap alignment from a guy at work (whole other can of worms, what a jackass that guy), the camber was already maxed out. Furthermore, "because" I put RS*R springs and Tokicos on the car, the toe settings were very negative as well. At least he got the toe maxed out to almost 0, so I wasn't too upset about the bad camber. To fix the rear camber, I settled on getting some battle version rear upper control arms from Phase2Motortrend (good service). Installed the arms tonight, dialed out the -3 degrees of rear camber and with an ear-to-ear smile on my face went out for a test drive. To my shock, the rear toe went SUPER negative now and the car feels like the rear tires are riding on snow constantly. No worries I thought, I'll just do a crappy home toe alignment with a long 2x4, and set the toe back to normal. Nope, still negative. Worse yet, the car started to crab-walk (drive) now. Now I must drop $250 or so for rear toe links to get everything back to spec (the spec at which it neve was in the first place).

This car has turned into a nightmare to set up correctly. I can take it in for a real alignment again (i know I should), but the toe is maxed out on + right now and it's still negative (straight 2x4 points away from car body around door area, I know its ghetto, but it works). I believe I'm stuck with getting the rear toe arms, which I don't really mind, I just didn't anticipate this and thus can't afford it right now.

This, and I MUST buy new tires because my rear's steel belts are starting to show.. not good. Oh AND my dad's z32 seems to be running on its last leg now... What a freakin adventure, eh?

Anyway sorry for the long rant post... here's cliff's notes:
-my camber was jacked up when car was bought
-alignment didnt fix
-battle version rear arms fixed it, but made toe max out
-now must get toe links to correct toe, car handles like poop
-other car in family is running like crap too
-thanks for your sympathy.

If you read this far, you have a longer attention span than me. Again, sorry to rant guys, I just hate reading about you guys spending money on things you care about (power, coilovers), while it seems I'm spending more money on just making thigs work correctly.

Alex