Robin Pemberton said It's really two different styles of inspections, . And here's what I think I can relate it to the best: As everybody is a probably a lot more familiar with the engines before the race, the best we can from the external atmosphere of the engine or the environment, we have some gauges and machines we do. But to inspect the engine as thoroughly as we do in postrace is very intrusive. And what I mean by that is the engine has to be disassembled to allow us to measure the internal components of the engine.The car today is much that same way. The big claw or the big grid that everybody has seen us use on the exterior of the car ensures us that the fenders are the right shape, the roof is the right width and the length and the construction of the body from a shape aspect is correct. But it's much, again, just like an engine; it's too intrusive to run the rest of the inspection in the field because to do that you have to disassemble so much of the race car. The engine has got to be out, certain crush panels have got to be out, a lot of interior components have got to be out to be able to set the car up and accurately measure the car like we do at the tech center. And that's why we do it here and that's why we don't do it in the field.But Richard Childress said "the car of Boyers left the shop meeting the specs of NASCAR"Think about this, all of us have a feeler gauge in our box so 1/16 of an inch is how much? In todays cars you can lean on the skin and change the tolerance so are they really getting touch me nots?? you tell me
updated by @johnny-mallonee: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM
