Oh yeah that was fun I borrowed someone's toe plates and was fiddling around with which way to turn the darn arm I kept turning each side the wrong way. I was at 1/2" toe out then 3/4" toe out

Finally got it through my thick skull and ended up with 0 toe and the car drives straight yeah!

 

how does the toe plates work??? I would like to do my own alingment it would save me some money

 

They are two L shaped plates that sit against each of your wheels. Then you use measuring tape (hopefully acurate with each other) and put one tape on the front of the plate (wheel/tire) and another on the back of the plate (wheel/tire) and measure the differences between the two.

So if the front tape is at 70" and the rear tape is at 69" then you have toe out (which 1" of toe out IS ALOT!). If it's the other way around it's toe in.

I'll take a picture for you tomorrow.

There's also the string method which is also very easy to use.





Here are some other methods:
http://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=267237
http://www.racerpartswholesale.com/long18.htm
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=597192

 

That Jerry Birchmore's Car?

 

Here's a pic of the toe plates:

 

You can also use something like this:



http://racerpartswholesale.com/long18.htm

 

I thought about that too. I'm so used to using toe plates now

 

Wow, I give you guys props :goodjob: , it's a lost art apparently, I can't and don't know how to use those manual methods and have to use the Hunter machine instead. Tried the Visualiner machine, but didn't like it.

 

Well I change my settings at least once a month. So going to get it done at NTB or Pep Boys would make me broke and no more money for racing

 

Cool. Did you end up with having the steering wheel centered as well? That's my biggest fear about these DIY alignment jobs.