"no person shall modify the exhaust system of a motor vehicle in a manner which
will amplify or increase the noise emitted by the motor above that emitted by
the muffler originally installed on the vehicle..."
They passed a law like this in Hawaii back in about '70. I had put headers on
my '68 Corvair Corsa convertible. On that car it was like, tuned headers and
"stinger" glasspaks connected directly to the collectors. The entire exhaust
systems were roughly about 3 feet stem-to-stern.
I drove it like that for a couple of years without any problems. Then they did
an enforcement and set up some motorcycle cops with dB meters by a major
intersection that was underneath the freeway overpass! With that amount of
resonance, sure enough it pegged the meter and I got an equipment violation.
Beat the rap by swapping out the glasspaks for turbo mufflers but it always
pissed me off when I thought about how loud those cop Harleys were, when they
fired 'em up to chase me that day.
PS -- as the proud owner of a '76 Yammie RD400 full race 2-smoker with
expansion chambers, in my experience it makes no difference how loud your bike
is. Dumbasses yakking on their cell phones will turn in front of you or cut
you off anyway.
Cheers
Mark LaBarre
94 atx 135k
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