If you think about the balancing process, three grams is probably an extra swipe with a file, and failure to back check the component weight against the minimums, and it's one rod out of eight. I'd bet if they checked the relative weights of the bolts, pins, pistons & rings they'd find that another component on that cylinder was a few grams heavy. I agree that the rule has to be enforced, but when JRG gets his engines from TRD, assembled and ready to go, it seems harsh that JRG, Kenseth and especially the crew chief get hammered hard. I mean, what's that crew chief got to do with it that he gets banned for six races? He didn't assemble that engine, and I doubt he even saw the inside of it! Hammering Toyota for TRD's mistake makes sense, but the rest is a bad deal.