Re: Tech Inspection stories?
There are several that fit into this category. How about the Winternationals that first generation SS Camaro hood trim became in issue? There were several cars in both Stock and Super. Stock thst competed with non-color matching hoods. Never mind the documented fact that a few early '68 Camaro small block cars came with "finned" hood inserts instead of "stacks." We had blue cars with red hoods lining up against red cars with blue hoods that year.
One of my personal pet peeves were the years when camshaft duration and overlap were measured by wrapping a strip of masking tape around the balancer and marking the lobe opening and closing points with a Sharpie or the stub of a hand-sharpened pencil. After the marks were made, they peeled off the tape, stretched it out on the fender and measured the distance between marks with a ruler? Never mind the fact that, on a small balancer, the width of each Sharpie mark covered at least two degrees one way or the other.
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Chuck Norton
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