im done with the operation
time: 2 days (trial and error) & bloody knuckles.
next project: aluminum driveshaft and 410 gears or subframes

tokico premium strut



pro3i camber caster plates

history has been made at the boogie. the first ever drive-by shooting took place on saturday! what an accomplishment! a club wouldnt be a club without some drive-bys. thanks to some negros, what started as a negro vs negro dispute inside the club turned out to be a brawl outside in the parking lot. then some coons hopped into their 80's GM clunker and decided to take it to the next level and shoot each other. no one got shot, but as people heard the shootings, 50 people rushed through the door. i couldnt stop the stampede, so i gave in on the fun like a mosh pit. another thing is, more and more often, you would see these old guys in their 70's pimpin these hot chicks. it turns out that these old geezers are strip club owners who bring their girls in for some fun. but theres more to it, they are there for escort services. so this club is a well rounded club, you can dance, drink, party, see strippers or sleep with one now.

ghetto garage
today, sunday, like always i sleep in till 4pm. so does akash but later. i told him i wanted to install my struts/shocks/caster plates, but he had to drive all the way to LA to get jacks and jack stands from his work. so i call him at 5 and he gets ready to go get them. i wait till 8pm and he finally arrives. so he drops it off in the garage and he goes in my room to do homework. so i begin taking off stuff and get into some trouble like trying to take off bolts. he has this handy lead pipe in his truck so i slip it over the wrench and voila! torque is multiplied. this is one of the most commonly used procedures of the ghetto garage patented by akash. after couple hours, i finally take out the strut, but now, i have to transfer the old stuff from the strut to the new strut. here i run into problems. the bolt on top of the strut is so tight that when you try to loosen it, the strut will turn also. we stick the strut in between my dryer and washer as a "strut holder/workbench". we try to use pliers and hold the strut shaft in place while we loosen the top strut and still it wont budge. i even went to pardo's house at 2am to get a vice grip but no use. after 4 hours and broken tools, we gave up. the ghettoness of the garage has overcame us. this is the fun of it. you have to work with what you have and make the best of it. no rules apply. its like an animal in its own habitat who has to survive in its surroundings. but tonight, we have been owned by the ghetto garage. tomorrow i will bring this strut to a specialist and take it off with an impact wrench which will take like 5 seconds.