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Had an EPA test today, first one ever. Bought the car with the whole exhaust setup 2 years ago and got pinned a month ago. Paid a visit to auto exhausts in the morning to hav a muffler pea shooter made up with a flange that got swapped on after the cat to keep her quiet. My god i laughed so hard at how ruined the car is with it on. All response

goes out the window and i was scared to even push it above 3000rpm, BUT atleast it was super damn quiet, so quiet that i had to keep checking the revs at red lights thinking the damn thing stalled.

Even worse I thought I was gonna easily come way under the dB limit but it scored a friggin 88dB, even with the crazy amount of restriction. I was hoping to work on the old exhaust to make it attract less attention because im over the noise but seeing how high the pea shooter came in at it seems like it would be a lost cause.

I really do want a reduction in the exhaust sound but i dont want to lose a chunk of power, the car on high boost already puts out 320kw.

My one question is when u guys had your tests carried out did they hav the bonnet up? They did for me and it was booming at 5100rpm. Dunno how much difference (if anything at all) it would make if the bonnet was down =(

Going in for a roadie on thursday after buying one of the 32gtr's advertised on here. Had the day off so i decided i'd go down to the place i booked it at and suss them out, i asked if the guy could just quickly look over the exterior to see if there was anything obvious he wouldnt pass. Surprisingly he said it might need a new front windscreen (looks 100% fine and perfect to me but he said something about the glass being grainey or something but im pretty sure that was just dust because it hadnt been washed), now im gonna take a stab in the dark here and say they are hella expensive to get a new one?

Also the car wasnt turned on at the time and has had the middle muffler removed so i reasonably loud, went down to a local exhaust shop and asked what they could do and he said he would make up a whole rear section to make it quiter for $200 which is pretty reasonable but something i cant afford just now. When i asked him about drilling holes into a plate and putting it inbetween the flange he said its not a very good idea as he car wont want to rev above 3k rpm and if the inspector take it for a test drive or to check brakes he may pull me up on it.... any truth to this?

Ahh ok, not as pricey as i would have thought.

Havn't had the proper inspection as such, it was just a quick run around before i bring it in, so the car was stationary and wasnt running. But i would be tipping its something he will pull me up on.

Thanks for the advice dude.

Failed RWC today, main reason being that someone has jacked up the car once or twich via the chassis rail and therefore has a sligh kink in the centre of it and some of the sills are bent from being jacked up with a trolley jack..... he beleives that this now requiresa full structural report from an engineer to say the car is structurally sound... >_< what a tosser.

Will try somewhere else on monday hopefully.

Oh wow, the other day I had the car jacked up with a friends hydraulic jack, had a stand underneath it and as I went to lower it onto the stand it depressed really quickly and slammed into the stand and put a kink in the rail. Looks like I better throw the car in the bin seeing as its not structurally sound anymore!!

Failed RWC today, main reason being that someone has jacked up the car once or twich via the chassis rail and therefore has a sligh kink in the centre of it and some of the sills are bent from being jacked up with a trolley jack..... he beleives that this now requiresa full structural report from an engineer to say the car is structurally sound... >_< what a tosser.

Will try somewhere else on monday hopefully.

Just go somewhere else, that RWC guy is clearly an idiot.

Mate got followed by an undercover cop from Blackburn road monash exit to Glen Waverley in his basically stock R32 GTR and got defected for not enough clicks in his handbrake lol

Such is life

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