Topic: Bribes or best way to go through BS inspection?
What have teams found to be the best way to make the BS inspection easier? Or to your advantage?
- lynchmob31
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Re: Bribes or best way to go through BS inspection?
No bribe will make the judges look the other way if you a cheating bastard... That said, it's all in good fun and you'll get to race regardless.
All the notes and receipts won't help you if there is a suspicion that you're a cheating bastard... Worst case you'll get put in A class and a couple penalty laps.
Used parts tend to make things easier to believe.
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Re: Bribes or best way to go through BS inspection?
Bribes won't really help you with bs inspection. They can help if you make them useful for the corner workers. Snacks, sunscreen, etc. put your car number on them and they may overlook minor infractions.
Re: Bribes or best way to go through BS inspection?
Best way to make it through BS unscathed...bring something awful/unique to race that the judges really want to see.
Second best, great friggin' theme with theme-specific, creative bribes...and don't cheat.
- chdonley2
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Bring Judge Phil a digital cluster from some malaise era obscure model automobile, only found in PNP yards nowadays.
Have it wired into the 12v. system on your race car to show it still lights up.
That might do it.
(Mike, Corey, did that do it for you guys??)
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Seemed to do the trick....
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Think about your eccentric car friend you haven't seen in a long time. You want to bring him a gift that will make him smile. Bring something unique to you that you enjoy. Might be booze. Might be a unique car related part. Might be a T-shirt. Be original. Tough to do. The judges have seen everything.
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Bringing the kind of car we like (or a car we don't like but with an excellent theme) is the easiest way through the BS inspection.
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Best way to get through BS is to act like you belong there, argue with the judges by questioning their automotive knowledge, claim those konis are factory equipment, and tell them you know better because you ran one autocross and played a lot of Gran Turismo.
I have a feeling this could actually work if you really played it up to farcical levels.
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BigBird wrote:
Seemed to do the trick....
Judge Phil gave us B 0 for this. He said this was one of the few times a bribe actually worked. Then we actually were in the contention for the class B win, rumor has it that was our last time we will ever get B class again, killer bribe probably won't count.
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What I've found is that first you understand the spirit of the rules and don't just focus on the exact words of it, especially if you are doing it as a way to find loopholes.
The other important thing is to go through it with a sense of humor. If you and your team go into BS with a plan to have fun with the whole process of BS it tends to go better. Outrageous bribes, a dance routine, some over costumes, some bizzare setup skit, all play well. But mainly don't take any of it too serious, you are there to have fun so don't sweat things like what class you are in or if you get laps or not. Once you pass tech you are good to race and have fun which is the important stuff.
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12 2015-04-01 01:10 PM (edited by chaase 2015-04-01 01:15 PM)
Re: Bribes or best way to go through BS inspection?
Judge Phil wrote:
Bringing the kind of car we like (or a car we don't like but with an excellent theme) is the easiest way through the BS inspection.
This is the man you have to convince so heed his words. We got a lot of questions the first time the Saturn went through BS tech. We still made it through but we had to show some paper work and answer some questions. I think the car looked too nice. It had a decent body and some nice vinyl work so it drew some attention.
The first time we showed up with the 1970 BMW 2800, all we got asked was if it had the original engine - It did and that is all we had to say. Phil took a pile of pictures and was a happy man
The first time we showed up with the 1969 Rover P6, we didn't get asked a single question related to costs. Phil couldn't wipe the grin off of his face long enough to ask a question. There was a giant Grover on the roof. We had some t-shirts made up with the Super Grover logo. He snapped a pile of pictures and some videos of the hood scoop. I was driving the first time Jay saw it and he just laughed. He then proceeded to thank me a number of times for bringing such a fine piece of British engineering to Lemons.
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1969 Rover P6B 3500S(sold) - Super G-Rover - I.O.E Winner, Class C Winner
1996 Saturn SW2 - Elmo's Revenge (reborn!), Saturn SL1 Dazzleshipm Class C x2 and IOE winner
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