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Yeah from SAPOL....got it in the mail today...

Funny bout it taking 2 months to get to me since the report was placed. I kno i wouldnt have been "hooning". More than likely i would have been driving along normally, and overtaken someone and held it in second or 3rd till 60. Some pompus bastard has gone..."aww yeah yet another hoon" and decided to say something about it.

Its not really that loud. But i completely agree with you. Whats to stop me doing it to someone i dont like? Ill give them a call sometime this week and see what i can find out about this mess.

As for the muffler... lol i have none besides the cannon atm. Only pulls just over 90DB... ive already been thinking of doing that for a while... Might just have to get round to it whilst replacing the cannon at the same time.

Cheers

noo need to get mufflers and bolt in baffle bits get a Apexi zaust quietener there are other brands too

oh joy theve updated the ECV http://www.apexi-usa.com/product_exhaust_d...d=227&pageNum=1

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noo need to get mufflers and bolt in baffle bits get a Apexi zaust quietener there are other brands too

oh joy theve updated the ECV http://www.apexi-usa.com/product_exhaust_d...d=227&pageNum=1

The problem with those is you can't really give it a boot full and keep it quiet.

Nothing better than a nice quiet car to give it a bootfull and not attract attention.

Do you mean the muffler add to back pressure.

That really depends on its build quality and design.

A straight through muffler that holds the same pipe ID and doesn't protrude anything in to the airflow will be fine.

With the removal of a cat convertor you only just notice an improvement in spool and top rpm power so a piece of pipe with a couple of holes in it that don't protrude in to the airflow won't be noticable. :laugh:

It is important to have a good muffler on the car, up around 300rwkw odd it can make or break it.

Some of the jap mufflers tend to squeeze in running a smaller id pipe inside the muffler, this is obviously bad bad bad, but is fairly quiet. :D

honestly, i think if your car aint a ford or holden (basically anyhing that resembles family or is australian) get ready to be picked on. edit* the dude at morphetvale is an exception.

Edited by Nozila

I'm not so sure..

I really am of the view that if the car doesn't look stock.. well prepare to be harrased.

All of my previous cars were aussy cars, all lowered, loud exhausts.

The last car was a nice 3yr old VS 5ltr 5speed, Bilstein suspension, sherbrook green, nice exhaust and I was pulled over every second week.

This car... Pulled over once in 4 years.

EDIT: Make that 4.5yrs. Damn I've had this car a long time. :D

OR if your on your P's or have a history of speeding etc.

I base this on when I was younger, I used to be pulled over every so often on my P's, I was then done for something silly which was fairly serious and after that for the next couple of years I was ALWAYS pulled over just to see where I was going what I was doing and the usual car inspections.

Yeah i have both of these...I have an apexi ECV and can put in my silencer type thing...Both kill power but are effective (esp when used together). Doesnt really matter tho...because no matter what i do its going to attract attention, loud or not that loud. Its the predicament that i kno alot of Skyline owners would agree with.

when my mate first got his HSV GTO LE, he got pulled over 3 times in the first nite, cos he was on his p's. and each time the cops thought it was his dads car, but when they did a plate check they saw it was his and were like wtf, then my mate would give them shit that his car is more than their yrs wage lol..

Madaz, yeah but i dont use either of these unless im going somewhere i kno cops will be

Hence without it, it gets 96dB, with just the ECV pulled up it gets 87dB, and im not sure with both but its whisper quiet :D

but when i got the letter it would have been when i had both of those off the car or the valve not pulled closed. Which is the reason why someones got pissed off.

I just got off the phone with an officer from the Traffic Watch department.

I wanted to talk about the letter that I have received and explained the incident and how it happened. They assured that no action will be taken and that all they do is send out letters.

So I asked them about the paragraph:

Any furthur reports received involving your vehicle may result in a visit from Police and the possibility of the driver being reported for an offence against the Australian Road Rules

I explained the scenario of someone not liking you, getting their friends to report you. They assured me that it would have to be of a serious nature and multiple complaints before they could charge.

In the end they told me that not every department has access to this database. Prosecuters cannot submit this information in court, since it is 'your word against mine'.

Personally I do not see any point of these letters. Another scare tactic to intimidate drivers!

Edited by HR-32

Nice work Adam, good work on following it up! I say keep a pen and paper on hand when getting pulled over and start writing stuff down that you think the orifficer is pinning you for wrong, and ask for thier badge number and name and tell them you are gonna report them to the authorities for inlaufaul(spelling) defecting(hence half of them don't know what they are looking at!)

It worked for me once when a mate half rolled his car in a side street at night on wet roads. WE knew he was doing stupid sh!t but this stupid bitch coppa thought she was so god damn good, and i asked her for her badge number and name, and then it turned worse...........for her! she started getting pissed off more and the other cop(man) told her to go sit in the car......LOL OH and yeh i never reported her......just something to put her back in her place and something to think about for next time!

Edited by Deluxe

nice work Adam...yeah must be just a scare tactic. Another pointless waste of money by the boys in blue just to make themselves feel like they have power over us.

As for the asking for the coppas badge number when u get pulled up qand u think u are getting done for something that u kno is wrong...So how many ppl have tried it and it has worked and the officer has backed down on their defect? But then what is to stop them going after driving infringments etc if they are pissed off with you?

^^^^^ each to thier own buddy, your already gonna get a defect anyways!

Oh and by the way THEY do have the power over us........this is why they have a badge, it's just we put ourselves in a floodlight and not just the spotlight with the cars we have. I have bought myself a 79 corolla i drive to work not only to save on petrol and Kms on the clock, but to reduce the chance of getting defected and reamed in the ass by a cop. And i can tell you it works, had NO trouble in about 2 and a half years, even drove thru a defect station for the guy to only give me a warning, and the other weekend drove thru a bretho in Birdwood and had no issues!!!!

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