Ye shall Jake brake no more, no flowmax, headers, and Chambered exhaust.

[70COPO]

Yawl be quiet out there now says the safety sheriff, "cause we comin with a high tech revenue makin machine"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...vers-roaring-cars-noise-violations-fines.html

 

[Zstar]

Yea, good luck with the no jake brake BS!

 

[80WA7113]

Well if AI is involved, what could possibly go wrong???

 

['70 Z/28 RS]

Buford T. Justice don't take no sheet! Better take the pedal off the metal and coast by those things with a whispah!

 

[COPO]

Wonder if my farts can reach the fine decibel limit.

 

[biker]

Wonder if my farts can reach the fine decibel limit.

. I'm pretty sure I did this morning. A pound of meatloaf last night.

 

[biker]

That's a pretty low limit. 100 decibels of rumbly V8 or V twin is far less annoying (pleasant, in fact) than 80 decibels of tuner Civic,
Enforcement should be a tool used to alter behaviour. That expensive machine will alter behaviour where it sits, but one cop on a Harley can use discretion and education as well as enforcement and build positive relationships with people that ensure compliance even when he isnt there.

 

[70COPO]

Yes. Loud pipes used to save lives… now you get a ticket

 

[FS87LT]

I remember reading of a guy who had his '68 Shelby GT500 shipped to Europe to vacation with. About how the cops in Paris felt his exhaust was too loud and checked it, barely under the limit, so they had to let him go. This was in the late 1960s!

Fast-forward to the recent state legislation in Nevada that criminalizes non-stock exhaust systems on vehicles. Which SEMA must have slept through?

In the NV situation, it could well be that a particular social or ethnic demographic of vehicle owners have "offensive" exhaust systems on their cars, as their groups' ID mechanisms. IF the NV law is aimed at THEM, in particular, but not in actual words, such laws can EASILY be termed "racist" and let things build from there. Just as they can be in the referenced situation.

In some respects, these loud vehicle exhausts might be a symptom of "raging hormones" and the desire for recognition of those involved. In the 1970s, it could be an old V-8 pickup truck with a new set of muffler shop exhaust (2.0" pipes with glasspacks). The driver would raise the rpms a bit to show off and then close the throttle on coast-down for the characteristic popping sound. Or the rumble of an un-muffled, open headered, factory hot rod on a Saturday night cruise.

Sometimes, it is just best for those "offended" by such things to NOT go near these places or events, by observation! "Street Takeovers", on the other hand, affecting innocent bystanders who did not desire to be involved, for spectacle, need to be stopped. NOT celebrated by their not-yet-mature groupies on social media. Personally, I never was impressed by "giant smokey burnouts", even at major car events. At the drag strip, they can serve a purpose, though.

FS87LT

 

[FS87LT]

Yes. Loud pipes used to save lives… now you get a ticket

Agree! For motorcycles, so the others on the road know they are around. Plus some fast-approaching hot rod, too. You hear them before you see them.

FS87LT