You PA residents had better read this...

[JoeG]

Rob,--What brought this on....?

[djunod]

Probably ricer fart cans...

[Chevy454]

Got me, Joe...but I'd say it's along the same lines as shutting down race tracks because of noise...some anti-car enthusiast somewhere got a bee in their bonnet and this is their "cause of the week"...

[Jeff H]

It's out of control! Many performance exhaust systems offer increased power and efficiency which helps all of us use less gas. They should test the systems and see which ones make more noise and give no increase in efficiency. But if they put that on the manufacturers, exhaust systems would triple in price. I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting so sick of this country restricting everything we try to do. It's frustrating. I need a few

[Canucklehead]

A few years back when i was in the car buisness a bunch of us got together for the first Rocky Mountain Jeep Jamboree in Canmore Alberta (on the edge of Banff National Park). We had an awesome trip taking some 85 Jeeps from across north america into our virgin Canadian Rockies. Talking with some of the Americans in attendance they were just blown away that we were able to do this as alot of trails have been closed down by the tree huggers and other various conservationist balony. They had mentioned that there hobby was slowly being eatin away and they were very pleased that they were able to come up here. Now i understand that there is some 7 different Jeep Jamboree's in Canada and more and more Americans make it every year and enjoy our back country. I guess we should enjoy it now, it won't be long before we go the same way. Some day the only place you will see muscle cars is in a museum next to the dinasours. (hopefully not in my lifetime)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[427TJ]

I'll bet this is intended to control fart-pipe emissions. Such laws are already on the books in most states but the police just don't enforce them.

I had to go to traffic school last November. During one session the subject of noisy pipes came up. The officer conducting the class kind of shrugged his shoulders as if to say there really wasn't anything they could do. I asked if there was a city noise law regarding loud (I called them "coffee can" mufflers so as to not embarass anyone) fart pipes and the officer said that there are laws on the books regarding modified/noisy exhaust systems. He even admitted that there was a kid with a loud fart-piped Honda in his neighborhood. My next question was, "So you're saying there are laws that you don't enforce?" The response was along the lines of, "Well, errr, ummm..."

The problem is is that one man's irritating noise is another man excercising his freedom. If the cops start cracking-down on Hondas with fart pipes then the Honda guys will say, "What about those Harleys with straight pipes that scream through town all the time?" Then the Harley guys and the Ricer guys say, "What about those old musclecars that rattle my windows?" And so it goes.

It depends on whose ox is being gored, so to speak.

"My noise is okay but that kid in the rapper clothes with his fart-piped Japanese car down the street must be stopped!"

Oh, and the aftermarket manufacturers will put much effort into halting any legislation that has any teeth. There's a lot of money being made selling fart pipes and as long as they're profitiable they'll keep on selling and they'll keep on driving everybody else crazy.

The intense craving within young males to make as much noise as possible with their cars and motorcycles is a time-honored tradition. Think: glasspacks on a '55 Chevy 40 years ago or a Model T modified with a short, straight pipe in the '30s.

Boys love their noise. The aftermarket loves helping them make that noise. Better get used to it or move out, way out, into the country!

[Canucklehead]

Aaaawwww the times they r a changin, it just seems like yesterday driving your opened header big block to the track and everybody giving you the thumbs up. Now they are holding up something but it's not a thumb, and you won't make it a block before the local law enforcment shut you down. My neighbors start yelling and soon as i fire it up now. Damn tree huggers!!!