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Jeff Niceswanger · 07-16-2025, 05:45 PM

Maybe some of you old guys can talk about the crazy items that got you tossed. I was talking to Jim Kronenbitter up at the IHRA event about this. His old Chevy II was tossed for not enough installed height on one of his springs. Elks Head Service had done the heads and under one of them and mistakenly stuck one too many shims under one spring. He laughed and said "One out of 16, and I'm the one that picked that cylinder". He said Westly got'em..
Earl Row was saying one year at Indy while in line to tech.... Someone came back and said they were busting the 69 Camaros with the cowl induction hood for no solenoid on the flapper. He was several pairs back from checkpoint, so he went back and grabbed the blinker relay out of his tow truck. (They were round back then). Someone in the area had a can of black spray paint. He rushed up, crammed that flasher up in the hood cavity. He said he had to hold back giggling as the tech looked up in there and congratulated Earl on having the thing they had been flunking people for all day....

07-16-2025, 05:45 PM	#4
Jeff Niceswanger Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 894 Likes: 685 Liked 1,031 Times in 368 Posts	Re: Question for the old guys Maybe some of you old guys can talk about the crazy items that got you tossed. I was talking to Jim Kronenbitter up at the IHRA event about this. His old Chevy II was tossed for not enough installed height on one of his springs. Elks Head Service had done the heads and under one of them and mistakenly stuck one too many shims under one spring. He laughed and said "One out of 16, and I'm the one that picked that cylinder". He said Westly got'em.. Earl Row was saying one year at Indy while in line to tech.... Someone came back and said they were busting the 69 Camaros with the cowl induction hood for no solenoid on the flapper. He was several pairs back from checkpoint, so he went back and grabbed the blinker relay out of his tow truck. (They were round back then). Someone in the area had a can of black spray paint. He rushed up, crammed that flasher up in the hood cavity. He said he had to hold back giggling as the tech looked up in there and congratulated Earl on having the thing they had been flunking people for all day.... __________________ Jeff Niceswanger 3740 SS Last edited by Jeff Niceswanger; 07-16-2025 at 05:54 PM.