Tech Inspection stories?

[Tim H]

Back in the early 1980's at Cayuga (now Toronto Motorsport Park) my father was racing his 10 second bracket '69 Camaro. It may have also been a divisional points meet for class cars as well as a Pro Stock show can't recall. Tech inspector checks our car and is pleased with everything except advises that we had too much rubber hose used in fuel line for connection purposes. I believe he said we had more than the allowable 6 inches. Had to scramble and make corrections or not race, okay fair enough. Later that day when looking at Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins Pro Stock Camaro we saw about 2-3 feet in total running from his regulator to his twin side mounted Holley carbs. He was not the only pro plumbed that way but ... he was a legend and we were bracket chumps ... fun times, great memories.

[Billy Nees]

I was bracket racing at an NHRA track and I'm waiting my turn in the Tech line when the Racer in front of me is confronted by the Tech Inspector because he wants to run Pro but he has a delay box in his car. At the time, boxes were only allowed in S/P. The Racer in front of me drives away and I asked the Tech Inspector about him taking out his box. The Inspector told me that the Racer told him that he wasn't going to use it and the Inspector was OK with that. I told the Tech inspector "lock me in a closet with your wife, I promise that I won't touch her!" He got on his scooter and rode away, came back with the Racer's box and told me, "you've made your point now get out of here"!

[Chuck Norton]

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.