This is why you should use a torque wrench on your wheels!

[white_2kgt]

http://www.teamjamoto.com/dixeregionpage.htm

uuuhhhhhh....................tech inspection?

Ok, I guess you are not aware of how autox works. When you get there you find a spot to park and unload all your shit from the car, then you go get in line for inspection. You get your sticker then go back to where all your crap is and actually prep the car, like change tires (some BIG regions actually have you leave the tech line and go right to the staging line, aka WDC SCCA, but that's the only place I've ever been to that does that, and theres nobody there to stop you from moving a cone and going back to your paddock spot). Plus those doing the tech inspection have to inspect about 300 cars in less than an hour, so what do they do, they run around grab a wheel and pull (if it was tight enough to make it to the inspection place at 5mph, its on good enough to survive a little tug from a 130lb college sophomore). Then they blip the throttle and send you on your way. Pretty retarded if you ask me. Inspection can't catch stupid. Stupid will always win.

[PGK]

A friend of mine just got a new Snap On 1/2" tq wrench, digital and it counts out degrees (like when you have a bolt that says torque to 50ft lbs then turn 180*). It was $800....

mine was only $500~ish when i got it. your bud either got ripped off, or got it right when it came out. it's nice though.

For wheels, i use a torque stick and an impact gun. quick, accurate, easy.