To build a truly on-budget $500 race car that will COMPLETE a LeMons race, one would have to get VERY lucky in their selection of a $500 car. This is why everyone cheats. And they turn a blind eye to most of it, as long as it's not performance enhancements. It's stuff like the coilover kits, the headers, the intakes, the obviously torn-into and built-up engines that get their attention.

Barry? Receipts for everything? While he might actually have receipts for most of the stuff that we admitted to replacing on the car... he was far less organized than you might think. But, yes... showing up with solid PRINTED documentation would be a good thing.

If they catch you cheating during BS inspection, they're simply going to assign a lap penalty to you. No crushing. The only car that gets crushed (other than incidental track damage) is the car that gets the People's Curse. So, if you cheat TOO MUCH, and it's obviously working for you (or you drive like a dick, as the winners of the Curse at CMP did), then you can get crushed.

Speaking of cheating... Ask James what he saw the crew of the winning RX-7 do immediately after slipping through the BS Judging station at CMP.