BS Inspection Recidivists (Page 1 of 3)

I'm guessing it is all based on residual.  If Jay gives your cheaty $380 over car a residual value of $500 or less and the money you spend on your car after residual adds up to under $500 you get a 0.

Don't give yourself so much credit.  They won't remember you next time.

Don't bring cheaty cars and you won't have that problem.

It really is a matter of what happens during the race and what the judges feel is an appropriate residual value.  If you get docked laps for semi-cheaty parts or because you admitted to being over budget your penalty is served at that race.  Technically over time you could develop a decent car but you better keep all of the documentation since day one.  Even then you aren't guaranteed anything.

I think that Civic got BS laps are ECR.  According to Kent, they penalized those guys.

They blew there motor at the last MSR race.

Saturday night we were talking and he said they seemed to able to endlessly overheat the motor. 

I told him we can't overheat the L-series in our Z without a huge risk of blowing a head gasket.

Sunday he came and told me apparently they can't endlessly overheat the Honda motor after all.

The Judges remember more than you might think.

It's just like in high school.  The cute girls like the other boys better.

Exactly.  Only they went from couldn't get a date to the homecoming dance to banging the prom queen.

Ah, yet another thread gets around to this central conflict: Mark didn't get to bang the prom queen.

I think his question is getting obliterated in the process, but this is what I make of it, in classic intarweb/South Park elves/underwear/?/profit fashion

Race 1:
1. Show up with cheaty car;
2. Get penalty laps;
3. Race.

Race 2:
1. Show up with same cheaty car;
2. Get no penalty laps;
3. Race

And the question is why does the same cheaty car not get laps the second time around? Does serving the penalty in the first race absolve those cheaty parts of their cheaty nature for future races?

Just to make clear, I don't personally really care. I'm not one to argue in favor of more litigiousness, as is Stevo; he's the one who walks around in the "Trust me, I'm a lawyer" t-shirt, despite the fact that he's not a lawyer and as a dyed-in-the-wool libertarian probably thinks that litigiousness is probably the single greatest threat to the Republic. He's a conundrum, an enigma, if you will. But we do love him.

But I don't know that the "it's the residual value, stupid" argument holds much water in terms of answering the how/why are the cheaty parts absolved of their cheaty nature part of the question; all that does is change the question to how/why are cheaty parts relieved of their value (by dint of one Lemons race?), not answer the question.

If you can't tell, I was in court this morning. It's hard to say goodbye.

i don't see what the difficulty is here.

your residual value is as the car rolled off the track at the end of the race.  cheaty cars are worth less at the end of the race than at the beginning, just like non-cheaty cars.

residual = (what you spent) - (how much value the race took out of the car)

if you spent $450 on your car, you'd expect that the residual would be lower than that after the race, right?  why would it work differently for a $650 car?

it's entirely possible for a residual to still be over $500 if your car is cheaty, but in that case, sell some stuff or take your laps the next time as well, and every time after until the judges decide it's gotten crappy enough that it's no longer cheaty.

if your car got hit with 10 laps and you bring back the same car and with residual of $450, you shouldn't get laps if you didn't spend more than $50 to get it ready to run again.

Can any of you guys hook me up with the prom queen?

Not the prom queen, but I think I was the only freshman male in my high school's history to ever have been invited as a date to Senior Prom. And I know what you're thinking:  No, it wasn't by a relative.

She's probably available. It's been nearly 2 dozen years, but I may be able to work something out for you. My wife may get upset if I start googling women's names in an effort to track her down, though.

I get the idea,, no cheaty cars!
  I don't want to be a cheater, but I do want to build whatever I can..
IF I take a bone stock 1976 Jaguar XJ-S V12, clean it up to the best of my ability. It's pretty obvious that's ok.
  Tires and brakes are pretty wide open Since I can use cast off Corvette rims and the stock brakes are pretty decent..
  Now IF I show up at race #1 with a couple of ghetto chargers under the hood am I being cheaty or is it such an outlandish idea that they will be so busy laughing they'll forget to give me BS laps?
  IF I get BS laps can I trade extra fuel stops for them?  The car driven nicely will get 8-11 MPG compared to an average of 30-40 MPG for most cars.   In racing conditions I suspect 3 MPG would be expected..  Sice most cars are in the 10 MPG range during racing that means I refuel 3 times to others single refuel..
Add some ghetto chargers and if I made it to refueling I might get say 2 MPG?  so we're Talking about 5 refueling stops to one..
  Thus they could give me  120 laps in a 24 hour race and I would spend all of them in the pits refueling..